←Recommendations of Milk and Gall

MILK AND GALL is a surrealist and haunting play about the state of motherhood during a tumultuous time in our country. We follow a new mother as her fears cause her to spiral and isolate from the people who love her the most. With that said, there's also a sense of hope by the end of it. Dratwa takes the audience on a journey on what it means to confront your fears head-on (even when your baby is a shapeshifter). There are many elements that would spark any director's interest to tackle.

Mathilde captures the paranoia of the moment for many people in the USA. Not just a political diatribe, she has fashioned a wonderful story with layers of complexities and nuance. The characters are natural and surreal , the dialogue is (as usual for Dratwa) spot on. And the story is important and entertaining and thought provoking all at the same time. This is a very realistic slice of life for the aftermath of the 2016 election. Brava!

***** Nonpareil! *****

A wonderfully funny play about becoming a mother on the eve of the election and having to live in dystopian Trump-world while nursing an infant. Hard as it is to become a mother, it must have been hellish to do so in the late fall of 2016. This play reveals so many truths about birth and mothering in such an honest yet comic way.

An amazingly theatrical and conceptually lush exploration of motherhood, white feminism, and coping with rage and fear in our current socio-political context in the US. A wonderful representation of how the political becomes personal and how larger social forces can inform, influence, and poison smaller personal relationships as well as one's own sense of self. The visual and aural world conjured by the stage directions is surreal, unique, and so clearly rendered that I would so very much love to see this brought alive onstage!

Fantastic play on motherhood, exquisitely written. A play about life and how one lives themselves in todays patriarchy let alone welcoming and guiding another human life in it. Brilliantly done!

this play is a fierce dissection into motherhood, into womanhood, into white womanhood, into rage and fear and hope--it's brilliant. do this play.

An intelligent, perceptive and surprising piece about motherhood, patriarchy, feminism, guilt, privilege, and the disorientating head-and-body space of being a new mom in what feels like a new world order, or is it?

Capturing the dizzying spirit, confusion, and heartbreak of November 8, 2016, this play is a rare example of how to write about and for a moment. Deeply political but never about politics, MILK AND GALL centers one woman (and what a woman she is!) as she journeys into motherhood and the impossible questioning around what it means to love something beyond yourself. Hilarious and provocative at every turn, I'm obsessed with this play's structure, its language and wordplay, and its inspired use of metaphor. Read this play! Produce this play!