Beautiful and striking in its composition, Refuge combines painterly landscapes and brutal depictions of the struggles for survival at the border, creating an achingly human story that offers no easy answers or empty optimism, but still succeeds in soaring into sublime emotional peaks and valleys. It's theatrical in the best sense of the word, and the kind of immediate, important and imaginative storytelling the American theatre needs more of to evolve.
Beautiful and striking in its composition, Refuge combines painterly landscapes and brutal depictions of the struggles for survival at the border, creating an achingly human story that offers no easy answers or empty optimism, but still succeeds in soaring into sublime emotional peaks and valleys. It's theatrical in the best sense of the word, and the kind of immediate, important and imaginative storytelling the American theatre needs more of to evolve.