←Recommendations of The Wasn't Supposed to Girls

A powerful piece that shows the lives of those who weren't supposed to be there and were never the same again. Well done.

Hard hitting and poetic, THE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO GIRLS is a stunning piece of work. Just how many people on 9/11 were not supposed to be there? Emily tackles this in a unique way, from the perspective of three women with different character traits and situations. This would be stunning when staged, there are so many ways you could bring this great play to life.

I wasn't supposed to read this! But I did. I'm deeply moved by the use of time and narration and simple repetition in this script. Thanks for this surprising and poignant piece!

Wow... this was beautiful and heartbreaking and just... I don't I was ready to feel like this today, but Emily Hageman said otherwise!

This play is tight and poetic. Hageman excites the imagination in such a way that this could be produced with gorgeous projections and smoke machines or with just actors and their bodies and either way it would be stunning. The stakes are high, and women are helping women - read it!

Hageman gets at the heart of fear, connecting unimaginable horrors and looking through sensorial lenses at the wobbling unreality of war. It's clear what her subject matter is, the events of 9/11, but what's remarkable here is a well of empathy, the way the fight or flight takes hold, and is a kind of universal — rather than sit on familiar narratives, Hageman widens the panorama, taking in the painful whole.