←Recommendations of The Garden

An insightful, subtle, and darkly humorous play that uproots and shines a light on the insidiousness of ignorance, micro-aggressions, and gentrification.

A play that digs beyond the small talk into the issues prevalent to the neighborhood and the desire for a community garden. Well done.

Caught this tonight at the Utah New Works Theatre Project. Good, good stuff. Superb characterization.

“Everyone wants a community garden, but no one wants to build it.” - in this crystalline moment, Bublitz reveals her uncanny knack for developing balanced, believable characters through rhythmically charged pacing and aching reveals. Her plays are prismatic, allowing us to see many personalities and perspectives, while moving forward in understanding a little more about ourselves and human nature. There’s an imagistic, almost cinematic quality to this piece, that says so much about where we’ve been and where we’re going.

Bublitz never fails to knock it out of the park. Seriously, I think we are looking at our next great playwright here. She is so honest, and "The Garden" is no exception. Bublitz is a master at saying volumes without saying much at all. Her characters are nuanced and genuine and never in your face. Her plays feel so powerfully, deeply, and achingly REAL. There is humor, but there is also profound, deep, terrible sadness in this play--and I ended it mourning how we STILL cannot understand each other because we simply don't try. Wow.