←Recommendations of Women Like Us

The mother/daughter relationship is one of the hardest and is encapsulated well in this play.

A vital exploration of why women often don't connect and what happens as a result and the importance of the grandparent/grandchild relationship, are portrayed.

It truly shows how important it is to take care of our mental health. This play is very validating to struggles I have personally experienced with mental health and teaching.

This play is for any woman who feels she is not taken seriously.

Wonderful, all-woman cast.

It is as tragic as it is funny.

Very visceral.

Empowering and hopeful....

I had the good fortune to watch this play evolve in our writers group. Playwright Dan Taube's innate skill to create complex, nuanced, relatable women characters is something I greatly admire. You'll have compassion for all the characters in this beautiful gem of a play. Women Like Us deserves to be seen by everyone and my hope is for a slew of productions!

Dan Taube's ability to write women's voices both true and real is inspiring. These women struggle with their pasts, their relationships, and ultimately their efforts to rise above and move on. This is a powerful story of multiple generations, and each one's struggles, successes and failures. Brilliant, emotional, and cathartic. Read it. Produce it.

What are we meant to do with hurt from those who love us? With gifts from those who hurts us? Most of us are traumatized in some way. Even monsters are still human. Even saints are still sinners. What matters is that we try. That we seek help. That we repent.

When I was r-ed in college, I retreated into my room with movies and wine coolers. Blocked it off. When the memories returned, everything was too much. Plays like this hurt, but they're good reminders: We aren't just trauma. And we will survive. So thank you for the reminder.

Dan Taube's Women Like Us is absolutely brilliant. Taube's incredible writing style and plot strategy take you on this winding journey where you are reacting in time with the characters. Taube's purposeful reveals regarding generational nuance and acceptance of the unfortunate cultural differences time affords is arguably perfect. Each character is so meticulously drawn that even their choice to bring their own coffee to a coffee shop is steeped in intention. This piece is absolutely important, and the work that Taube has put into it should be applauded. Highly recommend.

Taube’s incisive look at a rape victim’s emotional journey to forgiving ¬– but not forgetting ¬– tackles the generational damage inflicted by bad parenting with clear-eyed, dispassionate passion. Greatly benefitting from it sharply drawn characters and its all-female cast, this play should enjoy a long life in theatre’s all over the country. It has something to say and says it with eloquent force.

According to Shakespeare, “The sins of the fathers are to be laid upon the children.” In Dan Taube’s play, Women Like Us, it’s even more about the sins of the mothers. This is a multilayered, multigenerational, woman-centered play that confronts really tough issues head on. In the end, we have hope that Alice has found the catharsis that will break the cycle perpetuated by her mother and grandmother. Well done.

DAN TAUBE’s play, “Women Like Us”, is a powerful story about the mixture of love and abuse, some obvious and some not so much. Alice has a mother, whom she hates, and a grandma, whom she loves. Then, Alice’s world of being a Professor, loving to teach her students, and believing she has a future, suddenly changes. There are so many layers, subplots, to this incredible play. You will be totally immersed in this full-length play. BRAVO!