This play is wonderful. A skeptical woman meets up with a teenager claiming to be the reincarnation of her deceased husband, and you spend the entire play trying to deduce who's earnest and who's deceptive, continually reeling and reevaluating as new information gets sprinkled in and what you thought was true turns out to be not quite. I loved every minute. With complex characters, stellar dialogue, one set, and a small cast, this play would be easy to stage and should be staged often.

This marvelous page-turner of a Deb Hiett play is based upon real cases of this reincarnation occurrences. It's a multi-layered love story mixed in with a ghost story thriller. A high point play in any theatre's season.

As with all Deb Hiett's plays, "Circle Forward" offers great laughs and beautiful poignancy, delivering on the promise of the reincarnation premise while also taking us into surprising and unexpected explorations of parenting, abusive relationships, and forgiveness. A spooky mystery as well as a comedy and drama, "Circle Forward" was exactly the kind of play I was hoping it would be, and so very much more.