←Recommendations of Bathhouse.pptx

I didn't know what to expect going into this play and I left deeply moved. A play about memory and history and needing to belong somewhere. Loved the device of the power point presentation. Loved how these characters are given names throughout the play. I don't know much about bathhouse culture and I walked away from this play feeling its importance to queer culture. I hope this play gets produced all over. I really loved this play and the passion for its subject matter the playwright has

This play transported me into a world where a simple powerpoint presentation project that takes place in a classroom, transformed back into what it once was, and what it was meant to always be. A bathhouse. This moving, poetic, and funny play has given me a whole new perspective of the idea of communal bathing, and the longing for queer acceptance. Valles has given me a story that I will think about for a very very long time. I want to try and go to a bathhouse now. I’m due for a cleansing.

Loved this play. Smart, funny, endlessly inventive, ebulliently theatrical. This kaleidoscopic haunted PowerPoint presentation delves into histories of systematic (and internalized) marginalization & the stigmatization of queer and latin bodies within U.S. culture. But it's even way funnier and more generous and wilder than that premise already makes it sound. Valles hurtles us through an anti-4th-wall wormhole of imagined pasts, buried fantasies, phantom sorrows, and spectral desires. Partake!

I caught this play at The Flea and was so impressed with Valles writing and overall storytelling. While there were moments of celebration and fun I was so moved by some of the darker undertones. The play has stayed with me and I know it will continue to haunt me for a long time. I commend you for writing into this space and creating such a fantastic play.