←Recommendations of You Will Get Sick

I want to see this play over and over again, for all the reasons in previous recommendations, and because witnessing a 2020 Seven Devils Zoom reading felt like such a perfectly fitting, disembodied experience, the story, images and characters have haunted me ever since. Now I yearn to see the fully embodied version. Mystical, transporting, eviscerating -- ultimately a celebration of life and love, despite, throughout and BECAUSE of any/all/most kinds of sickness (and all their accompanying struggles), so that the play becomes strangely uplifting rather than depressing, connecting rather than isolating, thanks to intensive empathy. Beautiful beautiful beautiful.

A moving story of struggling with the hard parts of being human and understanding. Beautifully done.

A surreal, fantastical, ultimately very moving journey through a world of economic anxiety, small cash deals, and predatory birds. Parker's struggle with his illness, along with his unlikely friendship with Callan, anchor the story and render it beautifully human. Really terrific stuff.

A gorgeous piece that has the spare lyricism and beauty as well as offbeat, eclectic, and unique aesthetic of Diaz's other plays I've read. Parker's journey serves as a profound yet straightforward metaphor for a variety of things--a sense of shame reagrding long-term hidden or visible chronic illness, losing control of one's body, grief, coming to terms with all sorts of uncomfortable truths--while also being a dynamic real-time story. All of the aesthetic eccentricities--the existential threat of the birds, the connected imagery of Dorothy, the midwest, scarecrow--conspire to create a poignant and often funny fable of sorts.

A poetic and darkly comic piece that explores what it means to live in a distinct body, and the inevitable decline in health of that body. The brilliant character arc shows deterioration through pliable limbs becoming rigid hay and the metaphor of death is ever present with circling prehistoric birds waiting to snatch up the humans below. The play also deftly depicts the decline of empathy within our society and the commodification of healthcare and care-taking. I can't think of a more relevant play in the time of COVID-19. Also, it's laugh out loud hilarious. A real stunner. Bravo, Noah!

What do I say about this play? It's experimental. It's wild. It's funny. It's economic. Wants hang in the air like giant marauding birds. Oh, yeah, there are giant marauding birds. Very strange to read this in the age of COVID-19 - although it's not a COVID-19 play - and it feels just as out of control, as one may feel when one is ill. I think an adventurous theatre would have a great time staging this, on a stage. Given it is not a realistic play, I also think it would work perfectly well streaming from the actor's homes.