←Recommendations of when we breathe

  • Gina Femia: when we breathe by Jaisey Bates
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    A beautiful, epic and deeply moving play, this play was breathtaking and filled me with life and joy. I hope to see it produced often and soon.

    A beautiful, epic and deeply moving play, this play was breathtaking and filled me with life and joy. I hope to see it produced often and soon.

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  • Playwrights Foundation: when we breathe by Jaisey Bates
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    Playwrights Foundation highly recommends WHEN WE BREATHE, which excelled to the Finalist round (top 35) for the 44th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival out of 755 plays. Our community of readers felt this play best represented the mission of our festival. This work engaged us, inspired us, moved us, and was an outstanding example of transformative storytelling. Our local Bay Area Literary Council commends WHEN WE BREATHE as a compelling, relevant, cathartic new work which should be produced now. Congratulations! #BAPF2021

    Playwrights Foundation highly recommends WHEN WE BREATHE, which excelled to the Finalist round (top 35) for the 44th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival out of 755 plays. Our community of readers felt this play best represented the mission of our festival. This work engaged us, inspired us, moved us, and was an outstanding example of transformative storytelling. Our local Bay Area Literary Council commends WHEN WE BREATHE as a compelling, relevant, cathartic new work which should be produced now. Congratulations! #BAPF2021

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: when we breathe by Jaisey Bates
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    A stunningly beautiful evocation through incredible language the most theatrical story of Navajo legend become personal, moving, urgent plea for humanity to recognize each other. A play that must be produced. A play for all time. A play of Shakespearean proportions. A play that sings and silences and spontaneously could heal us all.

    A stunningly beautiful evocation through incredible language the most theatrical story of Navajo legend become personal, moving, urgent plea for humanity to recognize each other. A play that must be produced. A play for all time. A play of Shakespearean proportions. A play that sings and silences and spontaneously could heal us all.

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  • Nick Malakhow: when we breathe by Jaisey Bates
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    I was blown away by the acrobatic lyricism of the text! Much like in the wonderful "the day we were born," Jaisey threads together poetry, everyday human speech, direct address, impressionistic choral language, and much more into a cohesive aesthetic whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts. I enjoyed reading this on the page, but if you have the chance to listen to/see it, take it! Its rhythms and depths are unlocked in that fashion. Potent and wrenching exploration of huge injustices that reveals/pinpoints/respects its characters' traumas rather than exploiting them. Gorgeous!

    I was blown away by the acrobatic lyricism of the text! Much like in the wonderful "the day we were born," Jaisey threads together poetry, everyday human speech, direct address, impressionistic choral language, and much more into a cohesive aesthetic whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts. I enjoyed reading this on the page, but if you have the chance to listen to/see it, take it! Its rhythms and depths are unlocked in that fashion. Potent and wrenching exploration of huge injustices that reveals/pinpoints/respects its characters' traumas rather than exploiting them. Gorgeous!

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