←Recommendations of a fairy tale

I was immediately drawn into the world of the play through the cadence of the characters, which told me everything in the first 10-15 pages about Birdie's heartbreak that would unfold. Highly appreciated the many intentional choices, a primary one being centering Birdie's story on her mental health journey while the play peels away the layers of the emotional abuse in all her familial relationships. This play also provides opportunities for designers to play with lights and shadows of the theatrical woods and theatres to have nuanced conversations with their audiences about neurodiversity.

A beautiful, lyrical play that centers around the compelling Birdie and the way she must navigate her evolving, complex relationships with her fiancee and parents. The way Birdie's alienation from others and her autism are theatricalized is quite inventive and poignant and allows audiences a crystal clear window into her experiences and her past/present struggles with an emotionally abusive mom and a fiancee she's trying to communicate and share her whole self with. I really appreciated, especially, Birdie's difficulties of putting a name to/validating her own abuse in the context of knowing Lin's difficult past--a very real narrative.

A great modern-day fairytale about the words we can't say and living with autism.

As much a long poem as a play, Jordan Elizabeth Henry's dark fairytale is something to be appreciated and absorbed on a literary level. But it's also pulsing with drama and theatrical potential, its evocative sparseness allowing directors and designers to dream up their own, unique interpretations of the text. It's a brilliant depiction of the Autistic experience, particularly for Autistic women, whose sensations and needs are so often diminished, and who are all too frequently survivors of abuse. An excellent and moving piece all around.

A gorgeous and inventive play that brings its language, character contexts, and visual poetry to a truly decadent level. I was breathless by the ending. This play wrestles with the tangled relationships of history, trauma, and family as we follow Birdie on her path to both honesty and autonomy. What a dark, special, sure-footed script. It would be a delight to see this onstage!