←Recommendations of MORTALS

What a wonderful concept piece for both actors AND audience to take part in. Because make no mistake, the audience is just as important to the execution here as the actors. A study in relatability and connection. What's great is the audience isn't given any place to start from other than the sound design, which can evoke powerful memories. These memories can then color the stage and actors with a sheet of individual experience from each audience member. My hat is off to Emma Goldman-Sherman.

Oh, the possibilities!

Goldman-Sherman provides just enough guidance for theatrical collaborators to tell an unlimited number of variations of a shared life over the course of one (metaphorical) day. A feast for designers, especially lighting and sound, though costumes could add elegant fun. Directors and choreographers could fashion intimate epics and simple moments within the framework, reflecting all kinds of backgrounds and cultures and, well, humans!

In one page of description, both broadly abstract and just detailed enough, with two lines of dialogue, Goldman-Sherman has fashioned an infinity of favorite love stories.

All they need now is to be told!

This experimental piece is a treasure trove for a creative team: lights and evocative soundscapes build the world that contains these two characters. Their journey is experienced and takes its own shape in a beautiful and poignant way. I can only imagine how moving it would be to see in production. Incredibly powerful work!

I wish I had written this short experimental drama.

Emma Goldman-Sherman has created a play that is very precise with its aural and visual stimuli. But the story, the theme as told through the actors' responses to those stimuli are open to interpretation: the actors', the director's and the audiences. But everything -- title included -- is essential to shape the understanding.

As Goldman-Sherman writes in the synopsis, "It's probably different every time for every person involved." And I find that exciting and humane and vibrant with possibilities. I'd love to see "Mortals" directed and acted in earnest.