←Recommendations of The Place That Made You

A haunting, moving, evocative play with engulfing imagery and lived-in characters. I loved the play between worlds and how such enormous impossible ideas can live beside such intimate, heartbreaking moments.

A gorgeous portrait of pain and loss that intimately connects in a magical way. Excellent.

Many of us could easily connect with these characters and their struggle to belong and make sense of so much pain and loss in their lives.
Immensely theatrical, Bruce's play swallows you whole like a big whale.
Most plays are just fine treading the shoreline - this one goes deep, deep in the ocean.
Another challenging - certainly rewarding - play for designers.

Playwrights Foundation congratulates THE PLACE THAT MADE YOU as a Finalist for BAPF 2020. This play rose to the top 35 out of 735 plays submitted, and was discussed at length by our Bay Area Literary Council for consideration in our season. We loved how this play uses the language of theater to illuminate challenging perspectives and compelling intersectional questions. This play ultimately moved & inspired us and spoke to the core mission of PF. We hope that once we’re allowed to return to our theaters again, it will be considered for production to reach new audiences.

A powerful portrait of longing and loss. So intimate in the details of each character's struggle to connect and to be seen. I'm excited to continue my journey through the Piedmont Plays. I highly highly recommend this immensely moving play.

Stunning! The Place That Made You is sparely poetic and hauntingly filled with silences and the inarticulation of its characters in pain so that I feel every ache of it myself. Beautiful work!

Wow. I am blown away by how much I love The Place That Made You. This play is simultaneously intimate and expansive, deeply personal and wildly universal. Whenever I read one of Darcy's plays, I know I'm in for a deeply moving gut punch, one grounded in the humor of everyday speech and the mysticism that comes with making sense of your own queer reality. The Place That Made You was all that and more. Thank you, Darcy!

A challenging read in which the playwright has created a sometimes detailed, sometimes impressionistic rendering of a/the trans experience. There are many, many layers here that speak to 30-somethings in particular -- those bearing heavy debt, those dying in the endless wars, those who have endured an abusive partner and buried that partner. At times the play is both surreal and hyper-surreal, dipping in and out of the poetry of Ferlinghetti, as well as the mythical-biblical tale of Jonah and the Whale.

Just like Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio, The Place That Made You is a remaining. It is a re imagining of Jonah and the Wale, so whether or not you've read it I would take it up to see this new modern day approach to it. Filled with sadness, happiness, ups and down, this play will wash over you and never dry.

What an absolutely gorgeous play! The engrossing dialogue is both lyrical and spare--it feels as if not a word is wasted. Darcy Parker Bruce also creates an exquisitely theatrical world in a visual and aural sense as well. It is easy to see how not only actors but also directors and designers would have a field day with this script. Finally, it is so awesome to see a powerful and universal story about grief, healing, trauma, and home populated by humans who don't often get to tell that story. I hope to see this produced far and wide!