As I was looking up past writers from the Ojai Playwrights Conference, I ran across Mathilde's play and decided to read based on the title. I am so glad that I did. What an extremely funny and heart-breaking theatrical experience! It's a work that you can see clearly on stage as you read it and, unfortunately, I'm not at all surprised that this hasn't had a production. Just like the play "teaches", plays of this magnitude by women are rarely produced and that's a real shame. This work deserves to be seen!

Quite a roller-coaster of a work! As a fan and student of the Mamet Masterclass in playwriting, I have often been confronted with the challenge this piece examines - especially the "theater must entertain, not educate." I can also see both the cis white male problem vs the everyone else problem. Sadly, the final scene shouts to the fact that women, bipoc, LGBTQ+ and more have a place in the professional theater world and the rage expressed might be a bit misplaced? All in all, this had much funny and much poignant and much Wonderful and much horrible.

This is a searingly funny, powerful, smart, violent, intelligent and brave play about gender semantics and the artistically abrasive and misogynistic world that is both our past and our present. It turns the creation of theatre on its head in one astonishing scene after another. Dratwa's work desperately needs to be produced. The only reason I can possibly think of that it wouldn't be is because the male-dominated world of theatre and film is too ashamed and too weak to confront its own sensibility. Brave, provocative and unrelentingly honest. Highly recommended.