I fell in love with this play from the first time I read it, and it has stuck with me ever since. The Amphibians is a beautiful coming of age climate crisis play with the perfect mix of realism and fantasy. It has wonderful strong female characters and the potential for some incredible design work when staged. Love this play!

I'm always excited by plays that address the climate crisis—I don't think there are enough of them—and this one does so from a very personal, character-driven place, which I find very effective. I also love the juxtaposition of this magical, surreal creature inserted into an otherwise totally realistic play, and there's a lot of theatrical potential—I could see this working in a really bare-bones way (perhaps having the creature represented purely by sound and lighting effects), or in a full-scale production, with an amazing puppet.

A human and small symptom of a macrocosmic problem, beautifully rendered in the small-town angst of growing up. Would love to see this energetic work on its feet and fully staged!