←Recommendations of OTP

Beautifully written teen girls, Ceci and Michelle stick with you. It also evokes an Internet period that is fast receding writing fan fiction during Tumblr's ascendancy. Unlike many plays about the digital era, the language is rich, evocative and poetic without breaking the reality of the story.

Any piece that centers and respects the inner lives of teenage girls is already special. OTP takes it to the next level with its perfectly timed pacing, fresh sense of humor, and expansive imaginative landscape. Highly recommend, especially as exciting new material for high schoolers!

A wonderful piece that keeps surprising and delivering so much more than you're expecting from the outset - it captures the idealism of people too young to have lost their idealism, expressing it in earnestly awkward bursts of storytelling. "It's embarrassing to yearn," says one of the main characters, which captures the essence of the whole play.

Reminds me of one of Sarah Ruhl's essays about putting bad poetry in the mouths of characters and making a good play. This play perfectly embodies that concept and then some, because by the end Wien also proves herself a very strong poet.

I was laughing out loud by the end of the first scene – and that's just the state in which to begin this fascinating look at the often contradictory desires to do what's best for our people, and for The People. The humor of watching "the first 17-year-old president" quickly fades, and the back half left me questioning whether any politician can ever emerge from this country with their reputation unscathed.

Loved this moving celebration of making art with friends.

Loved this hilarious, absurd, and highly theatrical play. I appreciated how, on one level, we were treated to a window into this very specific and individual friendship but, on a higher level, Wien explored social and political ideals, leadership, practicality, ambition, and the tension between all of those things. I would so love to see this performed!

This play deserves to be read on the merit of having a character named Obarack described as "The Waluigi to Barack's Luigi" alone. But it is also an engaging exploration of responsibility and expectations in friendships and of where our ideals meet our limitations when we try to be good leaders.