←Recommendations of juice

Kirkman has crafted a beautiful, troubling, and claustrophobic tale of survival, stripped down to the barest of bones that makes us ask over and over again: "what would I do?" Blue and Green are the perfect almost-everythings to one another that makes for a perfect narrative whiplash; that is an extra powerful element as well, the tool of storytelling in which you see it through your own lens, as Kirkman suggests.
The ending is ruinously good, and makes you want to go back around to see the pieces move into place again. Beckett and Sartre are SHAKING.

Kirkman has encapsulated the strains of relationships so perfectly in juice. The horror that follows the characters throughout the piece is so jarring that I couldn't put the script down. So much is implied with so little words that any actor would be lucky to be either Blue or Green.

Kirkman refers to her play as a tool. As a tool, it is a blueprint for a story that no matter how you stage it (and you could in MANY ways, this is an enthralling playground) comes back to one question, "would you take pain if it meant your neighbor took less?" The journey is a funny, disturbing character study with echoes of morality and ethics that rival "The Good Place," but replaces its zaniness with a wry, claustrophobic terror. A deeply unsettling ending puts everything that came before into perspective, and I can't wait to keep "digesting" it.

I so appreciate the details in this script. They speak volumes and ground us as we move deeper into this unsettling world. The movement in this script is mesmerizing and terrifying.

A compelling and unsettling read! I love how this both engaged me as a story of watching two humans put in a traumatizing and dehumanizing situation trying to retain their humanity and survive being pitted against one another, and as a larger and more cerebral exploration of capitalism and other social constructs that do that on a societal level. The genre-bending combination of absurdity, horror, and drama was fascinating. Kirkman paints for us a number of dynamic stage pictures that I'd love (and probably squirm) to see live onstage. I'd be eager to follow this piece's developmental trajectory!

Wow! This was an incredible play to read, it would be an incredible play to see and experience. Mackenzie does an amazing job of stripping two characters down to raw emotion to allow the reader to experience without bias, their own biases. I felt all of my own experiences in life displayed through Blue and Green and as someone who has experienced extreme trauma in a similar way to the characters, I felt every emotion, every struggle, the entire evolution of the characters. Beautifully written, wonderfully staged, and so incredibly deep. Thank you Mackenzie for the experience.