←Recommendations of Poor Queenie

  • Shaun Leisher: Poor Queenie by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez
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    A gut-wrenching play about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters.

    A gut-wrenching play about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters.

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  • Liana Irvine: Poor Queenie by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez
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    Poor Queenie (June 2021) please see TWT review

    Poor Queenie (June 2021) please see TWT review

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  • The Workshop Theater: Poor Queenie by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez
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    The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Eliana Theologides Rodriguez as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. With ease, Rodriguez creates characters who each have a crown of their own and a dark side that enthralls with every read. By exploring loss, pain, and coping, we glimpse a picture of complex love and complex hurt. Our congratulations and thanks to Eliana.

    The Workshop Theater is pleased to recognize Eliana Theologides Rodriguez as a playwright selected out of a competitive pool of applicants for our Spring 2021 Writer’s Intensive. The Writer’s Intensive is an eight-week long, playwright-driven process geared towards revising an existing play. With ease, Rodriguez creates characters who each have a crown of their own and a dark side that enthralls with every read. By exploring loss, pain, and coping, we glimpse a picture of complex love and complex hurt. Our congratulations and thanks to Eliana.

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  • National New Play Network: Poor Queenie by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez
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    Poor Queenie by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez was part of the 2020 NNPN MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, a partnership between the Kennedy Center Education Department (the American College Theatre Festival) and Stanford University’s National Center for New Plays

    Poor Queenie by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez was part of the 2020 NNPN MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, a partnership between the Kennedy Center Education Department (the American College Theatre Festival) and Stanford University’s National Center for New Plays

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  • Nick Malakhow: Poor Queenie by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez
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    Beautiful piece! This intimate, contemporary familial tragedy feels both exquisitely natural and ever so slightly heightened in its theatricality. The huge themes--loneliness, identity formation, family relationships--are tackled with precision and with regard for the messiness of human relationships in an almost parable-like way. The mix of longer scenes and shorter moments and the unique introduction of a sort of "audience proxy" character in Livi appropriately shakes up the troubling equilibrium that Queenie and Amber have. This play manages to be bold and subtle all at once--I'd love to...

    Beautiful piece! This intimate, contemporary familial tragedy feels both exquisitely natural and ever so slightly heightened in its theatricality. The huge themes--loneliness, identity formation, family relationships--are tackled with precision and with regard for the messiness of human relationships in an almost parable-like way. The mix of longer scenes and shorter moments and the unique introduction of a sort of "audience proxy" character in Livi appropriately shakes up the troubling equilibrium that Queenie and Amber have. This play manages to be bold and subtle all at once--I'd love to see it onstage!

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