←Recommendations of You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!

A play that begins in intimacy that gradually expands beyond the stage, beyond the audience, and beyond the planet we’re reading (or seeing) this play on. Keiko Green manages to strike an impossibly sharp and self-aware comic tone early in the play, then breaks your heart over and over again throughout. What buoys the near-farcical dramaturgy is the empathy the characters command—these are messy humans in a messy world. Just like the rest of us. Wonderful work!

This play is a gut-punch, a warm hug, a wake-up call, and a real good time. Green's stunning style and magical theatricality weave together the slow death of a person with the slow death of our planet in a way that made me cry as much as it made me laugh. With a strong ensemble and three nuanced central characters, this play culminates in a dance celebration that made me smile from ear to ear. This play just possesses this hope that is equal parts poignant and important. A must read.

I loved this beautiful, expansive, furious, gorgeous, deeply sad play so much. There are echoes of 'You got older' and yet it is utterly original with an engine fueled with so much imagination and grief that it makes us laugh, cry, and try to save the world. Highly recommend.

A dramatic comedy with a good serving of comedy that meets the darkness of climate grief and connotations of death. "The world is too big to not be kind of magical" says one of the characters. The magical realism here (there's a support group for extinct animals), is poignant and theatrical. I found myself impressed by how well the magical moments were knit into the fabric of this play and its use matched the connotations around both end-of-life and end-of-the-world anxieties. #SparkFest24

So good I can die but makes me not want to

A beautiful, hilarious play that explores questions and issues that are both hugely existential and intimately personal. How does one respond to terrifying, massive, seismic change that they cannot control? Keiko has created three rich and nuanced humans at the center of this piece, and a wonderful ensemble of exciting and unexpected characters as well. "You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!" is a play that will likely make you laugh aloud as many times as it will provoke tears. I'd so love to see this on its feet and am eager to follow its development.

End of the World is a humorously dark play about cancer, grief, climate change, and how we process things out of our control. Featuring support groups with extinct animals and Greta Thunberg as a psychopomp, this play is delightfully unexpected and completely heartwrenching. Definitely put this on your reading list.