←Recommendations of The Safe Space

Powerful, provocative, clever, and maddening in the best way. Peck's razor-sharp dive into how an institution is rent by opposing philosophies of education will have your audience debating long into the night after the show. Shades of Stoppard in its ability to raise profound questions through pointed dialogue. An impressive play.

A complex, complicated and compassionate play about different philosophies of teaching. What I like is that the play lets you understand each character's point of view rather than trying to force the right one on you. You can agree or disagree with the characters, but that's on the audience. All the while, a compelling story is presented. This is a great achievement by the playwright.

It's never easy to tell a story about a current and controversial subject such as school safety, but Jason Peck has given us a very compelling and powerful lesson in how to do it. As seen at the Valdez Theatre Conference, "The Safe Space" confronts the issue of how to teach tough truths as well as a lesson in the support -- or lack of it -- from the people who should be making the decisions on just how much students and teachers need to face reality.

I was fortunate to see this compelling play at the Valdez Theatre Conference. Peck addressed an important controversial topic with keen insight and stellar writing. Whether you loved them or hated them the characters were well developed and believable. The audience feedback and level of engagement demonstrated the effectiveness of his portrayal of very difficult subject matter.

Peck has taken the moment we're all in and crystalized it into a thoughtful, provocative piece of theatre with one helluva leading role opportunity for whoever is lucky enough to originate Hatch. One scene you may love him, other times you may loathe him, but you will constantly be engaged with the debate that's going on in this play, well worth reading.