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Carnes masterfully juxtaposes the removed political rhetoric with the victim's heartfelt struggle and the physical reality of assault to visceral effect. This play is moving, powerful and extraordinarily relevant. It is about this event and these people, but also about our culture and current reality. This will haunt me.

This is why I rarely watch the news. I just get so f***ing angry. And the senior senator from Maine is one of the people who makes me angriest.

This play hit me hard! The reminders of Blasey-Ford’s courage in coming forward are magnified by the dramatization of a nurse administering a rape kit. “Rape kit” makes it sounds so one and done, but there’s a whole process that everyone should know about. Everyone should know all of this: what it’s like and what it’s not.

Carnes has given us an important play.

A powerful piece in response to the Kavanaugh hearings that resonates with everyone who is sick and tired of the policy towards sexual assault in this country. Well done.

Very moving piece. I watched the Kavanagh hearings. This piece brought me back to the pain that I felt watching them. “Indelible is the laughter.” We need your voice in these disturbing times, Rachael Carnes.

This play is powerful—disorienting and frustrating in a way that demands empathy, not just for Dr. Blasey-Ford, but for sexual assault survivors everywhere. The fact that it’s based on a true story, the clinical-caring walkthrough of the doctor’s actions, the use of court jargon—it all combines to put the audience in the head of a survivor. A truly striking five minutes of theatre.

We need this play. It's unflinching, necessary, and takes the direct route in addressing how the Supreme Court failed Dr. Blasey-Ford and survivors everywhere.

Powerful, emotionally resonant, complex, demanding - this defies expectations and brings a truly thought-provoking level of theatricality to an event, an arena, a subject, we think we know. Quite amazing.