←Recommendations of How Sweet The Sound

A style of writing that blends Sam Shepard with Chekhov. The action is tense with masculine control and formality that needs to go unquestioned. The cyclical nature of the piece gives a foreboding feeling for the future of these characters as the play ends. A fantastic piece of theater.

A compelling piece of terrifying magical realism that will keep you leaning in from beginning to end. A play as atmospheric and poetic as it is chilling and tragic.

McVay creates a world separate enough from our own to fascinate us, but alike our own enough to be chilling. Gothic horror is the cloak around the very human question, "What would I do if given the chance to sacrifice another for my own good fortune?" I would love to see this world come to life!

This is how horror should be done on stage. McVay keeps us on our toes while crafting the slow, powerful build of this thrilling tale. This story of sisters with make you laugh one moment and send chills down your spine the next. Not to be missed!

McVay crafts an impeccably built fantasy/horror world that chills to the bone! She manages to both establish a wholly new society with its own set of rules, while forcing readers to think of their own roles in society as victims, perpetrators, bystanders, and complicit accomplices to social dysfunction. The Southern gothic elements pair well with the nightmare horror. Each character is distinctly defined, and the haunting and beautiful visual and aural landscape McVay builds provides fodder for directors and designers alike. There aren't enough good horror plays in the world, and I hope this one gets produced often!

I love plays like this that leave you really moved but not totally sure what exactly happened. This play is creepy to the max and the possibilities are endless for directors, actors and designers in terms of capturing the atmosphere spelled out on the page. Like all great horror this play is about real fears that all humans deal with. In this play those fears are death and living a purposeless existence and McVay explores them in really unique ways with these rich characters. PRODUCE THIS PLAY!!!

Wow wow wow. Bizarre, chilling, terrible, lovely - one of the most engaging scripts I have read in a long time. Can see myself coming back to this again and again. The characters are fascinating and tragic, the conflict twisted and dark. Just the right blend of fantasy / horror / history that I have been searching for for so long.

A dark and scary as hell play that had me on the invested and tense the whole time. Right away it is clear that this world is not right, and McVay teases out little bread crumbs along the way letting us discover just disturbing it really is. Very excited to see where this play goes, as well as this playwright.

Surreal in it's handling of social conflicts, McVay takes the audience out of time and forces them to confront just how archaic contemporary society still can be. How Sweet the Sound pulls no punches.

This is one of the most thought provoking and thrilling play I've ever read. I remember having the incredible opportunity of seeing it in a full production and I was asking questions till the very end. The way McVay defines and confines the world around the characters is masterful. A beautiful piece of work that sucks you in and never lets go.