←Recommendations of juice

An incredibly confident, singular, and riveting play. Like slowly realizing you're in a bad dream but not being able to wake up. Great theatrical fundamentals bolstered the tremendously queasy atmosphere!

This play is like a modern-day Sara Kane: shocking, provocative, and delivers a pulsating story that will have audiences on the edge of their seats. This play gives us a simple hostage scenario yet still gives us room to imagine the circumstances of both Blue and Green. It thrives in being an uncomfortable experience, never letting up on its intensity. A play that will linger in your psyche.

bizarre and uncomfortable and utterly fascinating.

Theatre is a world that is meant to be flexible and can be created in a multitude of different ways. That is the premise Mackenzie has provided here. 'Juice' offers the audience the chance to experience theatre in many different ways. Even when reading it you get to the end and know you've experienced something and the interpretation of that something is something I could spend some time discussing. If that's just what you get from reading then its evident this piece was born to be seen (and experienced) live.

With "juice," Mackenzie Raine Kirkman has created a world that is at turns uncomfortable, moving, and terrifying. Different readers, audiences, and directors will bring a variety of interpretations to its characters and contents. "juice" is a captivity narrative. "juice" is a Rorshach test. juice is juice is juice.

A profoundly disturbing play with echoes of Waiting for Godot, The Twilight Zone, and Saw! Green is used to the black stuff. Blue is not. Are they friends or enemies? What happens over time is up to you. For me, it felt like a play about assault, denial, cycles of violence and abuse. For you, it could be something else...it's juice.

It may be a paper view, but in reading juice already has all the energy of a boxing match by the last lines. Indeed the participants of the play seem to be playing a game on uneven footing just to figure out the rules, with the rule maker always ready to render His judgments down amongst the seemingly absurd.

Kirkman's work thoughtfully displays the long game we all face as human beings. More so doing it within the confines of a single room, with time doing what it must, and people trying to be people as they must.

If you've ever thought to yourself that the music video for "When the Party's Over" by Billie Eilish would make a good absurdist horror play (what just me?) then you're in luck because JUICE is that and more. It's claustrophobic, gross, and one of the most unique explorations of the concept of sacrificing for love when only one person is doing the sacrificing I've read. Would love to see this staged.

Kenzie beautifully confines these characters in a disturbing, unsettling, and riveting adventure of claustrophobic spine-chilling self-sacrifice. This is "juicy" and delicious for any actor to sink their teeth into.

Goddamn. There are certain times when you read a work and you think, "Goddamn." Then you realize, maybe there is something holy here. Something otherworldly and damning. If Hell is other people, then surely salvation is, too. We are saved and damned in revolving turns.

This is one hell of a play. I want to see it. I want to direct it. I want to act in it. I want to sit with someone else and simply talk about it. I want to extract hope from its despair. I'll likely read it more in the coming years. Simply wonderful. Bravo.