←Recommendations of The Care and Feeding of Small Animals

The community of national and local readers for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2021 enthusiastically recommends THE CARE AND FEEDING OF SMALL ANIMALS as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation out of 755 plays. We were deeply moved by the moments of tension and relationship building between Sis and William. We were compelled by the formal experimentation, puppetry, and the sense of whimsy the playwright is using to create in the more dark, sinister world of the play. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2021

How can those entrusted with the future have a hope to lead, if their worlds only know limitations? The magnetic language cadence and multi-faceted characterization - the way the world of the play slowly builds - feels so theatrical. Deeply imagistic one moment, then hinging steeply to embrace the nuances and subtleties of connection, underscore the writer's keen facility for the dynamics of size and scale. A terrifying, breathtaking, and - human - play.

A timely, necessary play that dares to venture into the unknown future of a world (our world) in the brink of collapse. Audiences watch the creation of friendship and love attempt to survive a dystopian future and dare question their creators’ purpose and define their own destinies.

Immediate, classic, and prophetic. A tender, funny, endearing, horrifying, and thoroughly theatrical look at the systems that bind us, the terrible prospect of freedom, and the danger of malicious education. Smith's script conjures, alchemy-like, an entire vivid and grim world with nothing but two actors and some incredible, incredible words.