←Recommendations of Boy My Greatness

  • Collin Smith: Boy My Greatness by Zoe Senese-Grossberg
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    Stunning, absolutely stunning. I'm especially impressed with the tasteful interweaving of Shakespeare's writing, which feels carefully selected and never overdone. This work is thematically rich, building on its subject matter to question gender, faith, love, performance. Yet this play never veers towards self-indulgence, centering the characters and trusting the story to reveal its themes. And these characters are all deep & complex: an absolute dream for an actor. This play is clearly so thoughtful, so lovingly crafted. It had me laughing then soon after moved to tears. Truly, astonishingly...

    Stunning, absolutely stunning. I'm especially impressed with the tasteful interweaving of Shakespeare's writing, which feels carefully selected and never overdone. This work is thematically rich, building on its subject matter to question gender, faith, love, performance. Yet this play never veers towards self-indulgence, centering the characters and trusting the story to reveal its themes. And these characters are all deep & complex: an absolute dream for an actor. This play is clearly so thoughtful, so lovingly crafted. It had me laughing then soon after moved to tears. Truly, astonishingly great.

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  • Annikka Mocciola: Boy My Greatness by Zoe Senese-Grossberg
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    After seeing this production in NYC this spring, it has become my favorite play and a true honor to have witnessed it some of its first stages. I had the pleasure of speaking to Zoe (playwright) afterwards, and left the theatre so inspired to the point of tears! Worth a thousand reads, and I hope to see it grow further, if only so I can experience it once again! This is what today’s theatre should strive to be. I can’t recommend it enough!!

    After seeing this production in NYC this spring, it has become my favorite play and a true honor to have witnessed it some of its first stages. I had the pleasure of speaking to Zoe (playwright) afterwards, and left the theatre so inspired to the point of tears! Worth a thousand reads, and I hope to see it grow further, if only so I can experience it once again! This is what today’s theatre should strive to be. I can’t recommend it enough!!

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  • Bailey Jordan Garcia: Boy My Greatness by Zoe Senese-Grossberg
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    Just saw Firebird's production of this masterful piece and I was blown away. The piece is filled with rich characters who you immediately take to, exploring sexuality, gender, and overall place in the world. Senese-Grossberg has created a world that you simply long to live inside of for as long as possible. Highly, highly recommended.

    Just saw Firebird's production of this masterful piece and I was blown away. The piece is filled with rich characters who you immediately take to, exploring sexuality, gender, and overall place in the world. Senese-Grossberg has created a world that you simply long to live inside of for as long as possible. Highly, highly recommended.

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Boy My Greatness by Zoe Senese-Grossberg
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    A stunningly theatrical play that will surely take the world by storm. The exploration of gender and sexuality, the characters embodying these predicaments so wonderfully, will surely make this a classic play for many years to come. I love a play that can be performed on an empty stage, and this is so gorgeously written! A tour de force!

    A stunningly theatrical play that will surely take the world by storm. The exploration of gender and sexuality, the characters embodying these predicaments so wonderfully, will surely make this a classic play for many years to come. I love a play that can be performed on an empty stage, and this is so gorgeously written! A tour de force!

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  • Sophia Tarantelli: Boy My Greatness by Zoe Senese-Grossberg
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    This play was absolutely gorgeous. It not only tells the untold stories of those lost to history but does so in such a way that caused me to sob in thea theatre from the absolute beauty of the final scene.

    This play was absolutely gorgeous. It not only tells the untold stories of those lost to history but does so in such a way that caused me to sob in thea theatre from the absolute beauty of the final scene.

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  • Timothy Henderson Jr.: Boy My Greatness by Zoe Senese-Grossberg
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    This play deserves to be on stage where I cannot see the faces of the actors who are performing, only to sold out houses. Each character is written so exact, so chiseled, you know who they are from the first time they speak and what they will become by their last. The way the playwright wrote the fates of each of the characters, this might as well be a lost script from Shakespeare. To have me full on weeping, then with the next line have me rolling over laughing was a therapeutic experience. Don’t lose this one to history.

    This play deserves to be on stage where I cannot see the faces of the actors who are performing, only to sold out houses. Each character is written so exact, so chiseled, you know who they are from the first time they speak and what they will become by their last. The way the playwright wrote the fates of each of the characters, this might as well be a lost script from Shakespeare. To have me full on weeping, then with the next line have me rolling over laughing was a therapeutic experience. Don’t lose this one to history.

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