←Recommendations of Persephone Wasn't Hungry That Day

Pulsing Pomegranate, I loved this play! So painfully relatable, I now want cheese...cheese...cheese... and chocolate cake with frosted flowers, and I'm a vegan! So well-written and superbly crafted. You don't need to know anything about Hades/Persephone to fully enjoy this play, but it adds an extra layer of delight if you do. Playwright Aly Kantor deserves all the bread bowls for this one.

Kantor brilliantly riffs on Greek mythology to explore the complexities of modern dating and the unfair pressures placed on women. I enjoyed this unique scenario. I could see this short play being done really simply or with real resources put into it. I'd love to see how a set designer would realize a restaurant in Hell. I'd love to see what a costume designer can do with this piece especially when it comes to Hunger. This would be so fun to see performed. Lots of opportunities for physical comedy for Persephone.

Hunger. Desire. Want. The way they regulate and dysregulate one another, how they control and express us as much as we try to control and repress them, the way they manifest within us and tug our marionette strings to lure and repel others... it's all in here! Kantor introduces unprecedentedly down-to-earth deities (and a ferocious avatar of voracity) who confront behavioral and bodily ideals as a dinner date determines a dynasty. You'll devour this and you'll like it! [1/1/25]

Persephone & those 6 little red seeds have been speaking to the complex intertwining of femininity, food, & other appetites for millennia now, & Aly Kantor's 10 minute entry into this conversation is deeply in touch with the past while bringing a thoroughly contemporary perspective to this infinite conversation.

Based on Greek mythology, this play is powerfully grounded in modern "feminine mythology." The faerie tales we tell ourselves to be more desirable and attractive to a potential partner. Persephone is very much into Hades, but terrified to admit and/or advertise who she is and what she wants. Her Hunger hilariously speaks the truth while teasing "Ooh, daddy, I’m going to ignore my basic needs in favor of yours, get caught in a vicious cycle, and then wonder why I’ve never had a satisfying relationship in my life.” Brilliant and totally important play for women today.

A reminder that if you’re hungry, just eat the dam**ed food. A beautiful foreplay of food expectations and love/lust. They go together. Like a horse and carriage.

What fun! The first date interplay is perfect and I could almost taste the pomegranate! Well written dialogue and a fun, tasty story! Brava!

This terrific ten-minute play takes on such an important topic and does so with great wit, intelligence, and theatricality. This would be enormous fun to perform and to watch and will also get audiences thinking. So well done!

Refreshing and satisfying, Kantor brings her brilliance to a myth riff date night between Persephone and Hades. The personification of Hunger is delightful fun as a reader, so I can only imagine the joy an actor and audience would find in it. Alongside the comedy is biting commentary on all that women of any age must constantly balance in order to be deemed “inoffensive.” Dread Queen of the Underworld? [Insert Lucille Bluth “Good for her” GIF here].

This short, comedic play is an excellent example of "Protagonist v. Self" conflict. I love the humor, I love the underlying romance, I love how empowering the story is. Just terrific work by Aly Kantor.