←Recommendations of The Bed Trick

  • Mollie Murk: The Bed Trick by Keiko Green
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    Cannot recommend this play highly enough!! The rich, devastating realness of each character had my heart on the edge of its seat. A really beautiful exploration of attraction, love, friendship, desire, Firsts, coming-of-age, family, etc etc etc. Would so love to see it in performance— such a fearless exploration of difficult or seemingly-sticky subject matter, that gets right to the heart of what it is to be a person in the process of Trying to be Better.

    Cannot recommend this play highly enough!! The rich, devastating realness of each character had my heart on the edge of its seat. A really beautiful exploration of attraction, love, friendship, desire, Firsts, coming-of-age, family, etc etc etc. Would so love to see it in performance— such a fearless exploration of difficult or seemingly-sticky subject matter, that gets right to the heart of what it is to be a person in the process of Trying to be Better.

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  • Dan Pyuen: The Bed Trick by Keiko Green
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    Beautiful adaptation. The comedy is alive in the text, and the question it asks of an audience in its conclusion equally alive.

    Beautiful adaptation. The comedy is alive in the text, and the question it asks of an audience in its conclusion equally alive.

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  • Andrew Lee Creech: The Bed Trick by Keiko Green
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    This play is simply outstanding. Caught the Seattle Shakespeare Company production, and when I tell you that you don't often get experiences in the theatre like I had, I MEAN it. It asks questions, it provokes, it educates, and it does it all while having you in stitches laughing...until you're not. And then you are again. This is the kind of theatre that makes me excited for the future of our industry.

    This play is simply outstanding. Caught the Seattle Shakespeare Company production, and when I tell you that you don't often get experiences in the theatre like I had, I MEAN it. It asks questions, it provokes, it educates, and it does it all while having you in stitches laughing...until you're not. And then you are again. This is the kind of theatre that makes me excited for the future of our industry.

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  • Kate Danley: The Bed Trick by Keiko Green
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    I had the pleasure of catching the Seattle Shakespeare's production of this play and my mind is still reeling! (In a good way!) One of the delicious things about Shakespeare is he presents humanity as it exists, not necessarily how we would like humanity to be. And Keiko has taken All's Well and explored it in a modern context, dissecting the relationships of that play in human terms. Really brilliant! It would be a great companion piece to All's Well in a season!

    I had the pleasure of catching the Seattle Shakespeare's production of this play and my mind is still reeling! (In a good way!) One of the delicious things about Shakespeare is he presents humanity as it exists, not necessarily how we would like humanity to be. And Keiko has taken All's Well and explored it in a modern context, dissecting the relationships of that play in human terms. Really brilliant! It would be a great companion piece to All's Well in a season!

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  • Nick Malakhow: The Bed Trick by Keiko Green
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    This play deftly weaves together ideas and themes from Shakespeare's truly bizarre "All's Well That Ends Well" with an engaging, contemporary, character-driven plot about consent and relationships and reevaluation of the past. Like that thematic thread of reevaluation, Keiko reexamines and contextualizes the original play. So many juicy moments and character decisions here and all of the characters manage to emerge both sympathetic yet shouldering blame and the consequences of their actions.

    This play deftly weaves together ideas and themes from Shakespeare's truly bizarre "All's Well That Ends Well" with an engaging, contemporary, character-driven plot about consent and relationships and reevaluation of the past. Like that thematic thread of reevaluation, Keiko reexamines and contextualizes the original play. So many juicy moments and character decisions here and all of the characters manage to emerge both sympathetic yet shouldering blame and the consequences of their actions.

    ”