←Recommendations of This time

I really loved this play. I loved the getting to witness the moments these women spend together. Moments when they are not serving the whims of men. Men who either see them for labor or sex. When they are together these women get to be their full complex selves. These women love each other deeply even if they can't bring themselves to tell each other how they really feel. I loved the bits of dialogue that only the audience could hear. Would love to see how an actor plays those moments.

A beautiful and devastating meditation, an exciting piece of theater. This is the kind of story that makes me feel alive, and one that is so necessary for the stage. Highly recommend.

A sumptuous and heartbreaking portrait of intimacy and subtext-made-text - This time is an arrestingly emotional play, centered around three femmes attempting to find comfort in each other from their circumstances. With this gorgeous work, Brian Dang manages to create a new form of tension, between thought and word, between the audience’s awareness and the characters’ private hopes and desperations — I loved and ached for every minute of it. Once this play gets going, no reader, or audience member, has any hope of looking away.

Extraordinary. Elemental. An absolute gift of a text to a director worthy of it. Brian's language and theatricality in This time is as strong as their sense of setting, rhythm, and space. A viscous meditation on femme time and femme power, This time dances with history while obliterating chronology.

Absolutely devastatingly poetic in its language and characters, this play feels like it exists in another dimension that is fueled by longing, desire, and infinite eros. Dang creates a world that is both timeless and urgent, where we are running out of time as we witness love unfold among three femmes, where we hold our breaths for the silence between words and glances. You will never look at an orange the same way again.