←Recommendations of StoneHeart

This play is so good. The way it tells a wonderful frontera story is unparrallelled. I want to see it produced everywhere always.

A powerful exploration of mental health in a tumultuous journey of patriarchy and legacy. Well done.

Wow. This play is an incredible feat. You will be sucked in from the very beginning and be held until final blackout and moved to tears in the middle. Escobar does an incredible job melting the Western genre with tragedy and family and sparrows and thunder to make a beautiful piece of theatre, the likes of which we need MORE of. One of the best plays I've read.

To begin, this extraordinary play is for theaters willing to take risks with serious, edgy material. It is the kind of play that doesn't give up all its secrets on initial reading, and I will want to turn to it again. It inhabits the worlds of myth and dreams, with sometimes horrific images of death, madness, and dismemberment. One feels when reading it to be drawn into a world of Mexican culture unfamiliar to the average American, and the role of Birdie in particular would be a great opportunity for a gifted dramatic actress.

We are in great need of more art like this that turns Westerns on their heads. A genre that has bred so many harmful stereotypes and toxic masculinity needs to be torn apart and investigated. Georgina Escobar proves to be more than qualified to do just that in this searing exploration of patriarcy, queer identity, mental illness and a turning point in Mexico's history. It's the kind of family play with such rich characters that has for so long belonged to white people and belongs in conversation with the work of Williams, Miller and O'Neill

Georgina Escobar is like a surrealist Sam Shepard created in a lab by Maria Irene Fornes and Caryl Churchill but they dropped a bunch of 50's pulp scifi in the vat by accident. And then STONEHEART is her somehow doing an incredible Chekhov impression on top of all that. A family play that exists within our reality and just beyond it.

Escobar has a way of exposing history with wild imagination. This engaging and bold new work put us right in the middle of a family being destroyed by the changing world without pulling any punches. The result is an audacious study on mental health and the importance of legacy.