←Recommendations of The Gradient

This play is reminiscent of a Black Mirror episode (the good ones!). We're thrown right into a world that even though it's removed from our own, it's 100% rooted in our current reality. Tech promises us easy solutions to tough problems, but humans are simply more complicated than any algorithm can predict, and this play nails that sentiment perfectly with messy, relatable characters who are confronted with large ideas and questions during their 9 to 5.

An absolutely kinetic piece that examines accountability and privilege in those who seek reform not for change, but for public image reconciliation. Her characters’ conversations and textures of speech are agile and live and engage your whole body without effort. She plays with the form of her work from piece to piece, never settling into one “style” but perpetually experimenting with the way theatrical plot and legibility can function. This play investigates the intersection of empathy and technology, and the ways that one can twist the other into dysfunction. Beautiful, poignant, powerful work.

This play very quickly sets up a believable near-future world—new, surprising, and yet eerily-familiar—populated by complex characters. I genuinely didn't know which way the play was going to go at each turn. I appreciate it as an addition to the "#metoo" discourse that brings up interesting questions about rehabilitation, forgiveness, and sincerity: Can abusers be rehabilitated? Should we want them to be? Where is the space for women's rage?

The questions Del Rosso is asking about toxic men and the possibility of rehabilitation is engrossing and makes this play one that all theatres focused on diving into the deep cracks of the human condition should consider producing. It also works as a great workplace comedy at times too and Tess has become one of my favorite audience surrogate characters that I have recently come across. Please read this play and make sure it’s produced everywhere.

Got to see this remarkably hilarious and harrowing new work at Victory Gardens' Ignition Festival. A bold, prescient look at the attempt to find a fixed solution to a chaotic problem. Deeply uncomfortable, asking the audience (especially masculine audience members) how we exhibit toxicity and aggression in our own every-day behavior. Not to mention, just a really damn funny piece of writing. I can't wait to see what a full production of this work looks like.

Just saw this yesterday at Victory Gardens, and I was stunned by how precisely and deftly Del Rosso carries us through a play diving deep into the idea of what sexual harassment does to women (and men's) psyches and questioning whether forgiveness is ever possible. It's also fucking hilarious. I want to see this show produced now, and I want to make a lot of men in my life watch it.