←Recommendations of Those Hollow Bodies

  • Lizz Mangan: Those Hollow Bodies by emma joy hill
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    This pay is gross, vile, and uncomfortable. And it is an experience you will not want to leave, even after you are yelled at to do so in the end. With poetry and a queerness, this play showcases love in the face of trauma. Ann goes through a transformation that seems un-achievable within the 90 minutes of the play. Nevertheless, Emma brings her through one of the best journeys of a character I'v read in recent memory. Read this play, get lost in the jungle, and mourn the loss of innocence along with K and Ann.

    This pay is gross, vile, and uncomfortable. And it is an experience you will not want to leave, even after you are yelled at to do so in the end. With poetry and a queerness, this play showcases love in the face of trauma. Ann goes through a transformation that seems un-achievable within the 90 minutes of the play. Nevertheless, Emma brings her through one of the best journeys of a character I'v read in recent memory. Read this play, get lost in the jungle, and mourn the loss of innocence along with K and Ann.

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  • Eddie Vitcavage: Those Hollow Bodies by emma joy hill
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    One of the most powerful, moving, lyrical, and poetic plays I have ever read. Emma's work transcends the stage and forces her audience to be hyperaware of their compliance with the acts they are witnessing. Truly, a gut-wrenching, powerful examination of love, lust, greed, and empty cases.

    One of the most powerful, moving, lyrical, and poetic plays I have ever read. Emma's work transcends the stage and forces her audience to be hyperaware of their compliance with the acts they are witnessing. Truly, a gut-wrenching, powerful examination of love, lust, greed, and empty cases.

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  • Nick Malakhow: Those Hollow Bodies by emma joy hill
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    This lyrical play is a wrenchingly beautiful theatrical fable. The stage pictures, spare lyricism, and direct but complex visual metaphors all come together in a wonderfully unique and cohesive aesthetic whole. This play was uniquely symbolic/theatrically alienating and emotionally potent all at the same time. Hill explores huge topics--identity, toxic patriarchal structures and culture, and the forces in the world that pit women and femme-identifying folks against one another just to name a few--in an intimate and startling way. While there is much terror and tragedy at the end, K's shift...

    This lyrical play is a wrenchingly beautiful theatrical fable. The stage pictures, spare lyricism, and direct but complex visual metaphors all come together in a wonderfully unique and cohesive aesthetic whole. This play was uniquely symbolic/theatrically alienating and emotionally potent all at the same time. Hill explores huge topics--identity, toxic patriarchal structures and culture, and the forces in the world that pit women and femme-identifying folks against one another just to name a few--in an intimate and startling way. While there is much terror and tragedy at the end, K's shift points mournfully/hopefully towards paradigm shifting.

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  • Shaun Leisher: Those Hollow Bodies by emma joy hill
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    The poetry and imagery of this play is astonishing. I have never seen the themes of domestic abuse and rape culture tackled in such a unique and compelling way and the way the idea of the male gaze is explored excites me so much. This play like all of Hill’s work will create important conversations as audiences seek answers to the questions she poses. This play gives no easy answers. Only difficult questions that need to be asked if we are to help those being harmed by evil forces like toxic masculinity.

    The poetry and imagery of this play is astonishing. I have never seen the themes of domestic abuse and rape culture tackled in such a unique and compelling way and the way the idea of the male gaze is explored excites me so much. This play like all of Hill’s work will create important conversations as audiences seek answers to the questions she poses. This play gives no easy answers. Only difficult questions that need to be asked if we are to help those being harmed by evil forces like toxic masculinity.

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