←Recommendations of Glitter in the Glass

This is such a wholly inventive play that explores and explodes concepts around what to do with traumatic history of systemic oppression and violence and its inheritance and impact on present day to day life. Thomas utilizes sharp and incisive and dark humor and gets at the root of what people of all backgrounds zero in on and cling to when it comes to Confederate monuments and memorials. The three characters here are well-rendered and the theatrical mix of direct address, potent 2-3 person scenes, and bold stage images (such as the eye-moving portrait) are deftly used!

A powerful and moving pice about race, gentrification and socioeconomic movement in communities. Well done.

So smart. So funny. So moving. Mr. Thomas has a truly unique and daring voice.

OFFICIAL SELECTION for the KITCHEN DOG THEATER 2019 NEW WORKS FESTIVAL
This play was chosen from nearly 450 submitted scripts and received a staged reading as part of our annual festival.

Read this play, then produce this play, then get other theaters to produce this play, then repeat... The dialogue is electric, the characters are so instantly loveable, and the ending!! Gorgeous. I caught myself holding my breath for that entire last scene. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Excited to see this play take over stages everywhere.

The conversations happening in this play around the issues of race, class, gentrification and the purpose of art and fascinating and will provide endless post-show conversations for audiences. The characters are surprising and I would happlily see another play just about any one of them. Magic is a big part of this play that is so grounded in realism until the world and set of the play explodes. Can't wait to see this play continue to be developed and be fully realized on stage by adventurous theatre makers.

This play is so many contradictory things at once that it spins you around until you're in a new reality at the end, one where holograms and night gardens and flag aesthetics and complicated neighborhoods coalesce into a beautiful, slightly terrifying, hopeful whole. Somehow, the piece is frantically in motion and still at the same time, colorful, bleak, incredibly intellectual about art, devastatingly real about family. There's a deep magic growing from the soil of these frustrating, stubborn, wounded, funny people. Give them your time; they'll return to you so much more than you'd imagined possible.