←Recommendations of The Garden

  • Kullen Burnet: The Garden by Rachel Bublitz
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    An insightful, subtle, and darkly humorous play that uproots and shines a light on the insidiousness of ignorance, micro-aggressions, and gentrification.

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

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  • Cheryl Bear: The Garden by Rachel Bublitz
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    A play that digs beyond the small talk into the issues prevalent to the neighborhood and the desire for a community garden. Well done.

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

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  • Duvayne Emanuel: The Garden by Rachel Bublitz
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    I love simple, straight-forward plays such as this that double as a brilliant piece of social commentary.

    I love simple, straight-forward plays such as this that double as a brilliant piece of social commentary.

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  • Bryan Stubbles: The Garden by Rachel Bublitz
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    Caught this tonight at the Utah New Works Theatre Project. Good, good stuff. Superb characterization.

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

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  • Rachael Carnes: The Garden by Rachel Bublitz
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    “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.

    “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.

    ”
  • Sharai Bohannon: The Garden by Rachel Bublitz
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    Bublitz has a way of tackling difficult topics and problematic people in a charismatic way. We know what's really being said, and most of us even know how Rose feels, but the way the moment is captured makes it feels like we are present enough to experience the discomfort of it all first hand. I feel like I'm in an art gallery staring at a delightful painting but discovering all of the clues that the artist left signaling that these aren't just friends in a garden. Much more indeed!

    Bublitz has a way of tackling difficult topics and problematic people in a charismatic way. We know what's really being said, and most of us even know how Rose feels, but the way the moment is captured makes it feels like we are present enough to experience the discomfort of it all first hand. I feel like I'm in an art gallery staring at a delightful painting but discovering all of the clues that the artist left signaling that these aren't just friends in a garden. Much more indeed!

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  • Emily Hageman: The Garden by Rachel Bublitz
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    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.

    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.

    ”