←Recommendations of Ice in Their Veins

What can I even say about this full-length comedy by Aly Kantor? This play is a razor sharp satire and is laugh-out-loud funny. A very dark and modern play that addresses some of our more embarrassing internet proclivities. Great parts for some young actors and would be easy to produce just about anywhere.

This play is such a mess (complimentary). Aly Kantor always has such a way with dark comedy and I love to see a five-piece ensemble of young women get the chance to go absolutely feral, so I'd go as far to say ICE IN THEIR VEINS is Aly Kantor operating at the height of her power. Instantly quotable lines, brilliant skewering of influencer culture, snappy pace, and short runtime will make this a rightful favorite among student productions and blackbox theaters!

Kantor’s play has no holds barred. Competitive, skating, skincare, and the role of media influencers are delicious skewed in this dark comedy. There’s enough reality to make this exciting and enough silliness to make it truthful. Kantor’s gift is finding the truth under the delectable cover-ups. Give this to your best teen actresses and watch them shine. Cake pops for everyone.

Kantor's glittering dark comedy with heart explores (and astonishingly intertwines) female friendship, competitive ice dancing, internet influencers and skincare products with the playwright's signature wit, intelligence, and theatricality. With terrific dialogue, five fantastic roles for young women, and a wonderfully unusual and surprising story, this is a play all audiences would love. Produce it!

Teen solo ice dancing, combined with skincare influencing, combined with a refugee, combined with friendships breaking apart and forming in real time? SIGN. ME. UP. Kantor's signature vivacity has never felt more potent than in this dissection of competition and power dynamics among some devotees of what can best be called a niche sporting event.

Aly Kantor's weird and wonderful world of teen ice skaters and influencers. The characters are amazing and the dialogue is perfect. Rocketing through scenes like any good farce should, this would work on stage for young and old audiences. Truly a fun piece of work.

Oh my god you guys! I like, totally wish I wrote this! So funny, clever and ultimately showing heart, ICE IN THEIR VEINS is certain to delight audiences of all ages while offering up wonderful opportunities for young actors to exercise their comedic chops. So much fun! Marvelous.

Savagely funny from page 1, this lacerating comedy about competitive teen ice dancers keeps upping the stakes, delivering one of the most satisfying, wicked comedies I've read in a long time. Kantor's ear for dialogue -- especially for the unique dynamic interplay among young women -- is a joy, and the comic rhythms she finds here are worthy of study. I'll resist the urge to quote my favorite bits, as it would overfill my character count -- so just trust me and read this immediately.

First off, so many laugh-out-loud lines in this that it should probably be criminal. You know you're reading something good when you're laughing at the STAGE DIRECTIONS. Beyond that, Kantor does an excellent job in capturing current youth culture (I think?) and ramping it up to enjoyably ridiculous proportions here. The Kerrigan/Harding fiasco of the 90s has perhaps warped into what we see here, and I'm all for it. Pitch black funny in the vein of "To Die For" and "Heathers"... love it!

Oh my God. So much dark humor spews from the mouths and actions of these five teen girls, all of whom are hustling and conning and angling their way through life. Sociopaths, liars, and manipulators have their day in Kantor's diamond-tipped comedy and audiences will cringe and laugh and gasp.