←Recommendations of Tracks

The medical device in this play may be somewhat futuristic, but how the "business of medicine" operates is unfortunately very now. The U.S. really needs to consider circumstances like this play and realize how Americans health being a for profit industry creates a domino effect that can destroy us all. Hadley is actually helping others now that she has this medical device. But if she can no longer afford it, how many others will suffer without her?

America is doing Capitalism wrong. And Aly Kantor gives us a sharp and vivid look at how our techno-pharma future will brutalize the most vulnerable among us.

This bleak, stark short play is like a razor blade to the gut. Everything about this work feels and is on edge. And Aly Kantor's play works well due a touch of wit throughout. Chilling. Damning in its poetry. Nice work!

Tracks by Aly Kantor paints a grim picture of the future where the behemoth of capitalism has all but starved out compassion for compassion's sake in order to make way for compassion for profit. Kantor's vision would be scary enough, even if it weren't chillingly plausible. And the ending... brrr!!

This felt incredibly real and terrifyingly possible. Aly Kantor has created a sci-fi scenario that somehow feels like a conversation that could be happening in a doctor's office near you at this very moment. The end offers provocative commentary on the lengths most of us would go to in order to preserve our health. These people were flawed but likeable, and I would love to see where they go from here.

This was just a devastating read. The situation is sadly and entirely plausible in terms of where we seem to be going sometimes in terms of medicine, insurance, society, etc. Anyway, as this narrative flows, you just have a tightening, lurching pit in your stomach as you feel so many emotions for poor Hadley. And you can feel for Micah too... as she's not quite a villain either. In a way, perhaps she's as trapped as Hadley is even if the mechanism of the trap is totally unique. This play's going to stay with me for a while... excellent work.

This short play about the not-too-distant future is a perfect commentary on capitalism, drug companies, and how mental health is treated in America. Which is to say it's depressing and sad and enraging and makes you want to get up and change things - this is the near future after all, not the present. The characters have so much specificity and depth for a 10-minute play, and you're left grappling with all kinds of emotions over characters you've only known for a few minutes, because Aly Kantor is fantastic.

Kantor's TRACKS is a haunting and compelling short play that infuses a political landscape like no other. Kantor uses swift yet disturbing dialogue to craft this dark world right in front of our eyes. This suspenseful piece of theatre will make you rethink everything about the world around us.

Aly sneaks in an ingenious, yet beautifully simple sci-fi allegory about the dangerous pitfalls and totalitarian leaning state of our current American mental health care system. But the real magic trick is her ability to reveal her world-building within a quick and perfectly charming interaction.

TRACKS is a disturbing yet brilliant short play. Drawn along a seemingly familiar track, the audience will think they know where this train is heading, but the final twist really is a twist of a knife in the heart. With the added peril of an unseen child in imminent danger, the ending is made all the more disturbing. An excellent play!