←Recommendations of Goatman

Equal parts devastating, hilarious, and terrifyingly real, Goatman is a beautiful testament to healing. The characters are so smartly written, the setting so fully realized, and the emotion so palpable that I can't imagine a better way to spend 90 minutes!

Goatman is a magical, absurd, and deeply moving exploration of grief and family dynamics. Jarnagin crafts a narrative full of humor and heart, blending the surreal with the emotional. The choice to transform into goats is brilliantly absurd, adding layers to a poignant journey of healing. A unique and captivating experience!

Goatman is a funny, absurd, and poignant exploration of loss and grief, and how to grapple with the finality of a challenging and harmful parental relationship. I was struck by the intentionally crafted messiness of this journey, a chaos that is very real and one of life's great mysteries. Jarnagin balances all this with humor and imagination.

Love this play! The exact right mix of magic, absurdity, chaos, pathos, love, drama, comedy. The story inventively explores complex family dynamics and grief without ever getting too syrupy/sentimental, but still tugs at all the right heartstrings. Love that there's a story this good set in East Tennessee. Also goats.

Humans react to grief differently. Some keep on going. Others wallow. Others decide to push their loved ones away and become a goat. The latter scenario is rendered with warmth, magic, and compassion by Jen Jarnagin. What begins as a delightfully queer camping trip slowly turns into a poignant study of trauma and loss (with a side of absurdism in the form of goat legs), culminating in the realization that all living beings experience emotional highs and lows. Lovely, emotionally resonant work.