Endlessly fascinating, richly realized, and delivering the unexpected at every turn. The playwright creates a world adjacent to our own but tweaked in so many interesting ways. A tale of art and its passions and the temptations wrought by fame but also a coming-of-age tale with a real sweetness at its core. The opportunities for creative staging are numerous. A deliciously inviting piece.

What wonderfully bizzare coming of age story. I love how this play focuses on these pieces of Italian art and how they inspire and alter Vanessa. This is a play about fame and what it means to try and live a normal life. It's also a play about girlhood and how tricky that can be. I loved the absurdist elements of this play and can't wait to see how they are fully realized in a production. Vanessa is such a complicated character and I can't wait to see how an actress handles this role.

Deliciously theatrical, whip-smart, and SO SO FUNNY (!!!), I'm obsessed with this script's ability to blend the surprising, gorgeously-big-swing plot moments that are both spectacular and totally grounded in the world Maddie has created??? Vanessa is an instant icon! A joy of a read, I was grinning from the first to last page. Thrilled, too, at the theatrical forms here-- the voice overs, the stage magic, the projections and "Lizzie Maguire Movie" style vespas through Italy? Total bliss!