←Recommendations of The Psychopomp

This play spoke HARD to my students. One of my directing students worked with this play for their final showcase, and the deep, thoughtful character work they were able to do with their actors was due to the nuance and sensitivity in this script. We laughed, we cried, we laughed again, we cried some more. This is a subject my students feel deeply and personally, and the way this script addresses the reality of this experience while also offering hope is hugely impressive.

It's a play that addresses a difficult subject with great sensitivity, featuring a "woman in white" onto whom the heroine projects her own life and a different kind of psychopomp who guides her toward life. A tribute to friendship and life.

What begins as a late-night ghost hunt betwixt friends becomes a gentle act of salvation. Aly Kantor has an enviable gift for crafting comedic dramas, delicately combining her token blend of humor and pathos. Her characters are as concentrated as her storytelling - smart, complex, and always relevant to the world we're living in right now. We all need a friend like Bethany.

Love the flip. That moment when you realize what this conversation is actually truly about. It is rare and beautiful writing. Aly Kantor shows us all how this difficult subject can be done.

A gorgeous two-hander tackling tough subject matter, while remaining refreshingly funny. Kantor accomplishes so much in so few pages, simultaneously exploring what lies ahead and what impressions are left behind.

On a car ride down a long, dark road, two young women are in search of a ghost. But Aly Kantor flips the script, and a humorous story suddenly reveals serious undertones. The subject matter is handled with great care, just as you would hope in a real-life situation. Beautiful.

Aly Kantor depicts a beautiful brush with death (and the hopeful avoidance of a premature one) with her signature wit, symbolism, the blending of past and present and the hope of salvation in the future. Kantor herself acts as a psychopomp of sorts, guiding us through the characterization of her female roles who, while seemingly trapped and often lost when we meet them, offer us hope and example as they struggle to act with agency, find strength and lead us all forward by their example. Lovely work.

Just gorgeous, these two women coming back together after what seems to have been a little while. The deep dive into their issues and feelings is deftly, beautifully realized. A small but mighty play done so, so well.

What a beautiful short play. What starts out as two women friends taking a drive to spot a rumored ghost turns into something very different, essential and profoundly moving. Kantor's story and subtext unfold with great delicacy and enormous skill, enabling us to glimpse and then feel Christine's pain, and by the end we're hoping hard for both women. This is a play with the ability to change lives and I hope it sees many more productions.

This play captures a really touching moment between two young women. It's highly relatable to the 20 something experience, especially post-pandemic, and it leans into the avenue of communal care, which is not something that is practiced as often in our society as it should be.