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Walking a tightrope between tender and devastating, Alicia succeeds in blending genres to write something deeply moving. The sense of hope in the human connections, and dread looming from the periphery, mix extremely well to tell a story with no correct answers. Just truthful ones.

A devastating and yet hopeful and beautiful treatise on the effects of mental health and trauma on relationships. Will resonate with any person who had an emotionally destructive break-up as an adult. I think if I saw this live I would be a sobbing mess by the end! For a more detailed review, check out the SubStack "A Playwright's Journey".

Lucky to have been a fly on the wall as this couple gets to grow intimacy and trust with each other.

This beautifully deconstructed play has the heart of a fable and challenges our perceptions around justice, love and destiny. Alicia is a playwright to follow.

The past is never just the past. Our past teaches us about our present and helps us, possibly, in seeing a better future. Alicia Margarita Olivo's exploration of the past and its power is one worth seeing on stage. I can't wait to see a production of this show in the near future! Great play.

You don't really know if this is a dream or reality, nevermind that it's a play, but that's what makes this staged experience so wonderful. The dialogue is both harsh and poetic, and the projections are used so wisely. Alica Margarita Olivo does a wonderful job of unfolding a relationship, the traumatic past, and a possible future.

A lush, atmospheric, and highly theatrical piece with compelling stage images and visual metaphors used throughout. The two complex characters at the center of this piece are rendered with such clarity and nuance. I appreciated that Olivo simultaneously did not shy away from the traumas (familial and otherwise) these characters face and have faced, while also centering this loving relationship. It acknowledged their hardships while still maintaining hope and possibility.

An experimental play that explores love and liminal spaces through comic books and the skeleton of a car. The characters are rendered as complex through powerful visual metaphors, and their journeys toward catharsis are equal parts heartwrenching and triumphant.

A beautiful and richly visual meditation on love, relationships, family, chosen and not, with a skeleton car and a dark desert highway. Completely gorgeous and original.