←Recommendations of Our Lives

I thought the friendship that Rachel created in this piece felt very real, and I wished we had more than ten minutes of Max and Jenny. But at the same time, something about the shortness of this play and the fleeting moments we did see made it all the more poignant. I loved their complicated relationship.

As if I needed another reminder of how fast life goes by. Rachel has woven a tale of intimacy and friendship, mundane betrayals and climatic fantasies, all the things that make a life a life in just twelve pages. Heart breaking and heart warming all at once.

It’s rare, I think, for intimate relationships to momentarily break and then rebuild into deep friendships. But how sweet that is when former lovers are able to be friends and confidantes. Feeney-Williams gives us that story in a short play that follows Max and Jenny from childhood to old age. It’s a poignant, bittersweet story delivered with a deft hand.

Sometimes, despite our best intentions, things just don't go the way we think they should. RACHEL FEENY-WILLIAMS has created the characters of Max and Jenny - full of passion, miss opportunities, and grace.

It's hard enough to sum up the history of a life-long friendship into word. It's even harder to put it on paper. Harder still to capture the intensity and passion of a friendship that nothing can break. Rachel does all of this and more in just 12 pages: compiling a lifetime of triumphs and tragedies into 6 little scenes. Even with so little time, by the end of the play you feel for Max and Jenny because they're... Well, they're like us: People with a lifetime of experience.