←Recommendations of The Write Choice

This play from Daysha Veronica provides a captivating, thoughtful, and much-needed look at how important it is, not only for a playwright’s voice, but for diverse voices in all walks of life to be heard and respected. Veronica’s characters are multi-dimensional, and she does such an excellent job of framing the conflict from multiple perspectives that audiences will likely engage in animated discussions similar to the classroom scene in act two. This play should be required reading for theater programs and new works projects!

A seering look at white privilege in the theatre community, sibling relationships and grief over a family tragedy. Playwright Daysha Veronica deftly creates nuances worlds in a play that keeps shifting the time-space continuum, keep us on our toes and catching our breath at the seamless transitions. A play for our times, and all time.

The community of national and local readers for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2021 enthusiastically recommends THE WRITE CHOICE as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation out of 755 plays. We were deeply moved by Violet's journey as her voice is silenced in the current white supremacist American theatre culture. We were compelled by this play's promise as an important, straightforward conversation about race and racism in theatre & educational institutions. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2021

This play is a layered exploration of the ways Black women are silenced in America. Through Violet, we see how respectability politics don't serve Black women but hurt them. Additionally, Ms. Veronica lampoons White theatres who don't give black playwrights agency in the production of their work. Above all, this play is a call to action for black women to fight for control of their own narratives. I thoroughly enjoyed this play and I hope to see it onstage one day.