LUCKY is a deeply haunting play of survival where the story of Haiti/DR is told through a 16-year old girl's eyes. This play is a deep river, flowing between past and present as the Waitress is writing her novel in search of cultural knowledge, and finds both beauty and trauma. Every scene is a deeply intimate look at a raw and tragic experience. I've been fortunate to encounter Pharel's work dramatizing characters whose bodies hold so much generational pain, and I can feel the writer's intentional care for both her characters and the audience as we embrace them together.

LUCKY is a beautiful, layered journey. Both the Waitress and the characters from her world, as well as Lucky and the other characters from the world of the story-within-a-story, were drawn and painted with exquisite detail. I loved the way that the Waitress found herself and what she wanted from her own life as she told her protagonist's story.

A heart-stoppingly beautiful piece that deftly weaves time and space together with subtle magic. It contains a great deal of suffering and pain, but also deep tenderness, love, and even joy. Sometimes, choosing hope is the most radical thing you can do.