←Recommendations of GRIT

  • John Minigan: GRIT by Nick Malakhow
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    This is a remarkably fine-tuned play. Malakhow's characters, Raymond and Sasha, are clear and compelling, with inner struggles that become too large to keep inside, on a roller-coaster ride through a semester at boarding school where they are treated as "outsiders" by race, economic background, and sexual orientation. This play FLIES, with crisp dialogue, but also with a highly theatrical sense of the world around Sasha and Raymond, conveyed through projections, and inner worlds conveyed by projected texts, solo moments, and music. Once again, a Nick Malakhow play I can't wait to see on stage

    This is a remarkably fine-tuned play. Malakhow's characters, Raymond and Sasha, are clear and compelling, with inner struggles that become too large to keep inside, on a roller-coaster ride through a semester at boarding school where they are treated as "outsiders" by race, economic background, and sexual orientation. This play FLIES, with crisp dialogue, but also with a highly theatrical sense of the world around Sasha and Raymond, conveyed through projections, and inner worlds conveyed by projected texts, solo moments, and music. Once again, a Nick Malakhow play I can't wait to see on stage

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  • Maximillian Gill: GRIT by Nick Malakhow
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    A sensitively rendered look at two people struggling with the pressures of growing up. The characters are extremely specific, yet the play has a universality that speaks to anyone who's ever had challenges with fitting in among a certain cultural milieu. I am especially impressed by how the play has only two onstage characters, but we have a clear sense of the world they inhabit and all of the other personalities they have to contend with. Engaging and realistically written.

    A sensitively rendered look at two people struggling with the pressures of growing up. The characters are extremely specific, yet the play has a universality that speaks to anyone who's ever had challenges with fitting in among a certain cultural milieu. I am especially impressed by how the play has only two onstage characters, but we have a clear sense of the world they inhabit and all of the other personalities they have to contend with. Engaging and realistically written.

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  • Walt McGough: GRIT by Nick Malakhow
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    An immensely readable, well-observed and compassionate slice-of-life play. The two characters are continually surprising, but also quickly feel like you've known them your whole life. They orbit each other compellingly, and struggle realistically against obstacles that keep shifting and compounding one another. Would be a great showcase for two young actors, and an opportunity for a design team to build a subtle but fully realized world.

    An immensely readable, well-observed and compassionate slice-of-life play. The two characters are continually surprising, but also quickly feel like you've known them your whole life. They orbit each other compellingly, and struggle realistically against obstacles that keep shifting and compounding one another. Would be a great showcase for two young actors, and an opportunity for a design team to build a subtle but fully realized world.

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  • Rachael Carnes: GRIT by Nick Malakhow
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    And just like that, I became riveted by another Malakhow full-length! DAMN this dialogue is so readable. It just pulls you along at a gallop, and then at perfect junctures, the writer places these epistolary moments, revealing, delicate, inward. The structure casts us across time elegantly, and ultimately, it's about these two lovable, rich characters, peeling back a curtain on their experience, and breaking our hearts. Amazing opportunities here, for older teens and younger adults. Taut, clever, full of heart. This play's my new favorite.

    And just like that, I became riveted by another Malakhow full-length! DAMN this dialogue is so readable. It just pulls you along at a gallop, and then at perfect junctures, the writer places these epistolary moments, revealing, delicate, inward. The structure casts us across time elegantly, and ultimately, it's about these two lovable, rich characters, peeling back a curtain on their experience, and breaking our hearts. Amazing opportunities here, for older teens and younger adults. Taut, clever, full of heart. This play's my new favorite.

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