←Recommendations of Here Rests the Heart

I loved reading this play and I want to see it! Polak weaves parallels between time and space with ease. The protest moments at the beginning and end are striking bookends. I'm so into the use of ghosts and Chopin's monologue. Act II is such a powerful interlude. I so appreciate the musings on time and action. I dig how many characters get to have intimate moments. Highly recommend!

A powerful story of going through one's genealogy and uncovering the secrets that have much to reveal about life and purpose. Incredibly moving and well done.

This is a fascinating, multi-layered, and personal piece about family history and taking action. It also includes a thoughtful and complex look at activism and cultural diversity in the United States. Give it a read and a good ponder.

This is a gorgeous, affecting, heart bursting play. Polak is crystal clear in his characters needs, and wants even when they are hiding them from themselves. Really, it felt like he was walking me through his soul. A historical play that feels all too modern. Urgent and REAL.

Huge and sprawling. Intimate and focused. And so full of simple truths it hurts. A necessary epic, Brian James Polak's "Here Lies The Heart" is so many things all at once, all of them functioning together as a single, stunning work that speaks for yesterday, today, and tomorrow. This should be on his own list of plays that should be highly recommended, and produced. Everywhere and anywhere there are people who care about the state of their own individual place in the world at large and want to, need to do something about it.