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This gripping, gritty, and deeply moving monologue honors the horrific impact of PTSD and the difficult journey to at least partial recovery. The Combat Veteran's breaking point and its consequences are truly heart-rending. I am struggling to do justice to the power of this work, both moment to moment and cumulatively. This is one that will stay with me for a long time to come.

I love any plays that so thoughtfully and craftily depict post-traumatic stress disorder. This tightly woven docudrama is absolutely soul wrenching. There were moments my heart lurched as I read through the pages. brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

Such tightly written and fully realized storytelling and characterization! Goldfinger manages to deeply honor and explore the trauma and healing and recovery this veteran is working through and they treat this character with care and tenderness while not avoiding moments that illuminate the deep and gutting horrors of that process. Perhaps it is trite to say I laughed and cried when I read it, but it's true! Most importantly, I saw a brave person struggling against incomprehensible challenges and achieve some seismic shifts by the end that were potent and moving.

I had been putting off writing a recommendation for this play until I found the right words and I'm still not sure I have them. This incredibly moving play haunts you in the best possible way. It stays with you days after you've read it. I really hope to see it staged one day.

This play has moments that absolutely gutted me. Such a taut story about the road traveled when soldiers return home carrying the ghosts of their tour. It's an engrossing piece that any actor will be proud to give life and the audience will leave questioning if the price of their freedom is too high.

Such a grounded and well paced journey. The end is filled such hope while remaining real and honest. So many images ran through my mind of the person saying these words, which feels like the point. This is a story that relates to so many.

I was bowled over by this play: the specificity of the voice, its rawness, and its vulnerability...This is an incredibly moving account of one vets post-war experience re-integrating into society. It is evocative, painful, moving, and such an important reminder of the respect and gratitude that is so deserved and often overlooked by Americans towards our veterans and their service. Compelling, powerful, drama.

An excellent account of the experience of PTSD after war and the recovery process to heal. Beautifully done.

A deeply powerful and often harrowing one person account of veteran PTSD. With her poetic language and vivid descriptions, Goldfinger crafts an exquisite play that focuses on trauma, recovery, and the very human need to connect, forgive and move forwards.