←Recommendations of oh to be pure again

I directed this play at Appalachian State University, and what a joyous and profound experience it was. The students in the cast, on the production team, and in the audience resonated with it so, so deeply. This sounds cliché, but Kira has written a play that helps people heal - I've never said that before about a production I've worked on. Also, it provides an excellent opportunity for young actors to really dig into contemporary realism.

I absolutely loved this play and it completely subverted my expectations of what it might be. (I had a TLW ring before I even knew myself.) This play is a great balance of joy and rage. There's so much heart in "oh to be pure again."

I was deeply moved by this play, & I imagine many others will be as well. These characters are sincere, impassioned, & beautifully painted portraits of what it can look like for young people trying to figure out who God is while becoming who they are. The ferocity & joy of the ending is particularly commendable!

Comedically captures many niche Bible camp experiences and archetypes while exploring the impact of purity culture from multiple perspectives with tenderness and nuance.

Kira's dialogue is so fresh and connected, the characters and their hopes and dreams and internal struggles jump off the page. Beautiful and timely piece. I look forward to following this play's production trajectory! Brava!

Searing and nuanced, while never sacrificing laser-precise jokes and a flooring sense of theatricality, this play is incredibly special. Wow. The characters are lived-in and funny and heartbreaking. The writing is poetic and disarming all at once ("God-mom"? Break my heart!) Everything in this play feels carved with such intention (from such painful material), but what's so impressive is the hopefulness that steers the final moment of the play. The craft alone is running on all cylinders, but to add the clarity? Towards patriarchy, purity culture, and teen girls reaching for something more? So special. A rare, one-of-a-kind play.

This play is a beautiful and balanced exploration of purity culture within Christianity. There are moments to laugh with the characters and their summer camp antics, and moments your heart breaks when the patriarchy pops the bubble of feminine joy. Fantastic design challenges within. A beautiful story that colleges everywhere should produce!

An astoundingly well-observed exploration of purity culture. Rockwell's characters are never merely caricatures, even as their culture is critiqued. Their search for God and for friendship is pure, even as they are made to feel impure.

Deliciously visceral, Kira's oh, to be pure again pairs the rapturous highs and hellish lows of teenage girlhood. The play offers up a sweaty, tousled, fervent naiveté, offering us both the eggshells of faith and the abyss of the real world. I laughed, I cried, I questioned God, I walked away longing to weave friendship bracelets for every character. What a kickass exploration of what it means to be alive, human, and not alone.

I had the pleasure of dramaturging this play at the Kennedy Center and I was continually struck by the piece's honest, thoughtful, and complex exploration of young women navigating faith, love, friendship, and identity. Never preachy or judgmental, this show was equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. We need more dynamic, messy young women onstage and this play gives us so many to admire.