←Recommendations of But Aren't We All Monsters?

So listen. This play is about a six-foot tall woman who can snap people like twigs with her bare hands. If you have not already stopped reading this recommendation and started reading the play, I do not think I know how to communicate with you.
But if I may try anyway? Proctor writes with notable sensitivity here, using a compelling central character to ponder love, agency, time, labor, family, and so much more. This is a story with a huge scope and a lively pace, yet is always familiar and intimate.

I couldn't recommend this piece enough. Shayna as the timeless focus through a world that never stops changing allows us to pay attention to the minutia of each rise and descent. Proctor has wrought a creation-turned-creator story that envelops the senses with sharp dialogue, humor to breathe in between the ache, and a bleeding heart of a family forever divided over their own rights and wrongs.

(Also the entire second half had me holding back tears. It's cool, we're cool.)

This piece is genuinely so beautiful; the way time moves, the scenes that are all exactly as long as they need to be, the openness for the artistry of the producing company, and the honest complexity of history and the humans that make it. Definitely immediately slid on my favorites list and I'm sure I'll be thinking of it for a long time, waiting to visit Shayna and her world once more with fresh eyes to find what else Proctor so cleverly hid for us there.

This is a beautiful and well thought out story that is so full of life. I laughed and cried. All of the characters are so distinct from each other, but similar when they need to be, and the language spoke for itself. I was able to imagine the scenes playing out on stage in my head very clearly while I was reading; and the ending is just *chef's kiss*.