←Recommendations of Indoor Cats

A delightful romantic comedy set during the pandemic. Loved this expertly crafted cast of characters that you can't help but fall for. Things feel really hopeful in the end.

Cats and catastrophe and Covid. Birds and babies and blues. And love. Imperfect, wild, tame, and (sometimes) bliss. A tale of creating, recreating and finding what is needed and wanted. A play that includes Covid without it being centerstage. The relationships take that honor. Gorgeous, imaginative play.

I had the very great privilege of seeing Indoor Cats develop over the period of a year, and from draft to draft, was delighted with the care and love Mora Harris put into the world of Panda the Cat and Jules, Panda's human. I love the setting, and the depth of relationship between all of these characters. This isn't a play where Panda is the main attraction, but is so much more intricate than that. Please read this play and produce it often: it's a complete delight.

I saw the Chicago production. Harris has created the kind of play I wish I'd written. Smart and funny. It's the kind of material that makes competent actors give good performances, and brilliant actors inspired ones. One of my favorite pieces of the past year.

Featured in our PlayTime Live reading series in 2022! Mora's plays are delightfully and deliciously human and, when it comes to this quirky comedy, especially when they feature an anthropomorphized cat named Panda. It's impossible not to relate to the charming neuroses of filmmaker Jules, her very pregnant sister Willa, and their dreamy neighbor Pete as they navigate fraught relationships and artistic fulfillment amid the dawn of the pandemic. INDOOR CATS will warm your heart as it busts your gut.

Dialogue and character relationships that absolutely sing set against a setting that feels so much longer ago than it really is. Each of the four characters jump off the page and struggle with this moment in their lives in a way that is immediately identifiable. Loved reading!

Red Theater read this play for our monthly script club and we were so happy to have Mora come talk to the group about it. This play could been done in so many different ways. I would love to see it with some cool theatrical tricks- projection mapping of the birds on the porch or a cat puppet. But it could just as easily be done with a very simple set.
I love that it is set in such a specific moment of the pandemic. I feel like I can place it so specifically. It's a very strong choice.

INDOOR CATS takes a snapshot of four lives tangled together in the earliest moments of the COVID-19. Mora smartly allows the high stakes of the pandemic to pulse in the background of every relationship, while focusing our time on perfectly-paced dialogue and small, intimate moments of physicality.

As a cat lover, someone with a vastly more put together sister, and an artist who lived through the pandemic, this script was right up my alley. I really resonated with the relationship between Jules and Willa, as well as Jules' struggle to separate herself from her art. The script is engaging, funny, and uniquely touching (which is especially impressive as it's set during a time when touch was so restricted). I would absolutely love to see it staged!

A smart, grounded snapshot of early pandemic existence, and an insightful exploration of the artistic desire to create when the world is on fire. Harris meets every character on their own terms, human or otherwise, and every perspective is as sharply developed as can be. Timely and engaging!