A moving one-act about growing up Black and how children are cut down at such a young age due to the color of their skin. The real world scenes make you feel you know these characters. Turner shows the nuances of being young and awkward so well. These are normal kids which makes what happens all the more jarring and tragic. The scenes in the afterlife are ones that I'm excited to see produced one day. The play gives no easy answers to what that place means or what it looks like. Leaves so much to adventurous creative teams.

This is a compact but loaded piece that examines grief and friendship and moving on. I so appreciated how each character's identity so clearly impacted their experiences and those impacts were threaded through the text in a complex and multi-pronged way--from Malik and Thaddeus' connection to their hopes and dreams for themselves and each other. The liminal space occupied by Wren and Thaddeus is super inventive and I'd love to see it created onstage.

THE BRIDGE tackles a lot of heavy, nuanced material in just an hour. The relationships between all four characters are clear, realistic, and engaging. Moments of joy and pain are experienced side by side in this nonlinear drama, making each all the more potent and striking. The marriage of such grounded reality and the speculative fiction elements exploring an afterlife make this piece incredibly original and unique in its approach. Also-- look for the Peter Pan connection. Chilling. A beautiful piece-- Bravo!