←Recommendations of Where the Lovelight Gleams

A piercing and nuanced, yet balanced and often funny, examination of the ways for-profit prisons strip people of their humanity. Also a compelling example of how climate change MOST impacts people with the least footprint. Gorgeous language, a thoughtful, motivated story, and a range of interesting perspectives and characterization.

A gorgeously crafted play that is at once intimate and massive. I am in love with *all* of this script, but I especially love how subtly the environment takes on its own character, plot, and pseudo-speech. We are always aware of its flames, and that danger is such a brilliant and natural way to learn about the 3 incarcerated women at the forefront of the play. I especially appreciate the way that McCloskey never spoon-feeds us any platitudes, instead trusting the audience to sit in this purgatory and make what we will of the beautiful, horrible cinders. What a play!

The Jewish Plays Project recommends WHERE THE LOVELIGHT GLEAMS as a Semi-Finalist for the 11th annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. Our community of readers felt this was an exciting, compelling story told in a highly theatrical, stylized way of fire, smoke, and shadows with beautiful poetic language that grabs our imaginations in how this will be staged. This play explores characters who have been dehumanized by society yet are deserving of love and redemption. WHERE THE LOVELIGHT GLEAMS rose to the top 20 out of 250 plays and we hope this play swiftly finds opportunities to reach new audiences.

Fantastic play. Kyle puts so much depth to these characters. I want to see this play produced SO badly!

Gorgeous, inventive, heartbreaking, funny and extraordinarily timely. Read and produce this play.

Magnetic characters thrust into an impossible situation explore deeply-moving themes in this intense, relevant, human play, with a core of environmentalism and ethics rarely so well-dramatized, because: Fire. Not only are we tracking smoke jumpers, but the ante is pushed higher when we get from the start that they do so to fulfill the terms of their incarceration. As an Oregonian who has seen my state ravaged by wildfires - increasing each year in duration and frequency - this play hits home. A reading at the Great Plains Theatre Conference brought out McCloskey's deft storytelling. Brilliant, tragic, memorable.

A beautiful piece that proposes many questions that are hard to ask or even face. Wonderful characters that pop off the page.

McCloskey writes with the beautiful, holy rage of a prophet. Lovelight reflects on the cost of our predatory society, paid first by the Earth, then by those who suffer and die without our notice as they are forced to protect the property of the privileged. These three womxn become icons for the many killed in this project, whose blood cries out from the ground for justice. Mercifully, in this play, we can hear it.

Read the play. Produce the play. Engage your community. Cast down the mighty from their thrones.

An important story told in a boldly theatrical manner! These complex and multi dimensional characters have nuanced and subtle arcs. McCloskey has created dialogue that is at once naturalistic and rhythmically heightened. The stage directions are both huge/fantastical and exciting to imagine as a director and designer! I hope to have the opportunity to follow this play's journey.

'Where The Lovelight Gleams' is a wildly imaginative story that never loses sight of its beating heart. The emotion and sincerity flow right off the page and into your mind as we see these three nuanced and achingly human characters pressed against a world literally falling apart. Poetic, sensational, timely, and grounded, this is the type of work the American theatre needs.