Kantor has brilliantly crafted a play where a setting can mean so many different things while also staying exactly the same. I loved how this play explores so many different tragedies and how it impacts these characters. This is a play that will require a lot from actors but it would be so rewarding to create such a moving piece of theatre. I loved watching these women grow. I loved how much we are able to fill in information from their lives with just their dialogue. There is no time for exposition here and I am all for it.

The first scene of Occupied sucked me in, and it wasn’t just Aly Kantor’s gift for authentic dialogue (which is amazing!), but the all threads she weaves into the conversation between Amelia and Jac – the seemingly mundane topics that engage them, the depth of their relationship, the social and political events of the day, the unique setting in bathroom stalls, and the serious questions raised. This play is thoroughly engaging, thought-provoking, funny, and heart-breaking. Occupied is brilliant!

Towards the end of Aly Kantor's fine play "Occupied," one of two best friends expresses the wish that "something exciting will happen in her lifetime." Over nearly twenty years of friendship, Jac and Amelia live through the most tumultuous and earth-shattering events of the twenty-first century. Kantor smartly keeps these events on the periphery, dedicating most of her script to the friendship of two women, with several doses of humor, character, and spot-on dialogue. Lovely play!