←Recommendations of Cold Foam (monologue)

Love the way Christian St. Croix crafts dialogue. Very real. Also huge fan, personally, of indictments of systems of white supremacy. Sarah wants what she deems to be order, and her desire to leverage her whiteness without seeming anti-Black was really well-executed here.

Great monologue! So vivid with a chilling ending.

Phil Ochs once sang that it's easy for white liberals to like minorities, "as long as they don't live next door." Christian St. Croix extends this argument in "Cold Foam," in which the white liberal in question can not even handle the existence of a Black man within her line of vision. St. Croix distills so many American social ills into a killer solo piece. Well done!

A subtle depiction of the effects of casual and unexplored racism perpetrated by a smug, self-satisfied, self-justifying harridan. The build of the piece is taut and the ultimate pay-off is devastating. This is a clear-eyed portrait of the banality of evil.

This monologue starts off as an ode to coffee and twists and mutates into a spotlight on casual, unrecognized racism in the white, liberal community. Very upsetting and illuminating.

Usually, the protagonist of a story is one we side on, we want to relate to them, to sympathise with them. Usually. But here we despise this protagonist Sarah, and her actions are despicable. Worse is the fact that she believes she is justified in her actions.
Sadly there are too many like Sarah in this world still, at a time where many society are doing their best to move on from this horrible nonsense.
An excellent monologue.

As someone who feels that anyone who calls the police on a black person who is minding their own damn business should be charged with attempted murder because they’re trying to use the police as their own ethnic cleansing assassins, this monologue fills me with rage and fury!

The genius of it is: if you haven’t read the synopsis (I had), the reveal is a gut-punch, but if you know what’s coming, know it all along even, feel your blood becoming steam in your veins and cooking your heart, it’s somehow even more powerful!

Necessary work!

This play exemplifies white privilege and the expectation of the State to do her bidding. The commentary on justice and "nice women" is chilling. Great job.

Haunting in its realism. The subtleties--especially the final moments--hit like a ton of bricks. Essential reading, I hope this is produced again and again.

A glimpse into the mind of an average "Karen" that should horrify those of us with white privilege.