Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • My Body
    10 Apr. 2018
    Defamiliarization at its very BEST! Thank you Ms. Bublitz for writing this brilliant play! Perfect is too small a word. I absolutely enjoyed this down to the smile and the final comment at the end. Every moment of this play spread a gleam of joy through my being and for those ten minutes of reading bliss Jupiter aligned with Mars. . .
  • Look At Me
    10 Apr. 2018
    Well done with twists and turns I never saw coming! This is a wonderfully well-composed drama that pulls me in and never lets me wander off for even a moment. Westfall drives this play forward with great tension (dramatic and sexual) to keep me on the edge of my seat in anticipation with a very well-earned ending!
  • Escape in a White Toyota (almost-monologue)(10 min.)
    10 Apr. 2018
    What a marvelous surprise of a piece! I won't give it away, but I will say I love the language and the physicality and the action and the amazing stage pictures and the blizzard and Rice's vivid imagination! I want to see this produced! So much fun - and I LOVE the ending!
  • All We Know Is Not Enough
    8 Apr. 2018
    Distance - this play gives me a palpable sense of the distances between us even when we are close as in siblings, and how someone far away, as far as the world might currently allow, can seem closer than those who are literally nearby. Bruce has a great sense of theatrical space and how to build worlds that feel different enough to lose your heart in.
  • Imogen Says Nothing
    8 Apr. 2018
    Here is a stunner so witty and deep one would think Shakespeare had a sister among us. And a sister she is, in word and deed, for here a play so true to the fairer sex, all unfairness is made visible. That some are tethered and baited, and some are made to feel entitled and as if free, and neither sex the better for it. A play to see!
  • Agnes Under the Big Top, a tall tale
    7 Apr. 2018
    Fabulous! I love the purposefully disconnected fragmentation as a metaphor for the immigrant experience. The characters and their tall tales - the tales we have to tell to manage our lives - how even the American woman who is cared for by Agnes and Roza is disconnected in much the same way that they are and paralyzed too, but the transformation for Agnes is breathtaking. In contrast to its dark subject matter, the play has great humor and heart!
  • COYOTE HOUR
    6 Apr. 2018
    Beautifully written play that digs deep under all the ways we hide from ourselves and make our own labyrinths in our minds and hearts, closing ourselves off to our loved ones too. I really like the way Baldwin gets at the problems sideways. Baldwin writes our normal every day world with so much packed in underneath, I am still unraveling it all. . .
  • Drift
    6 Apr. 2018
    Economical and lyrical, Drift is also wonderfully fresh and full of life, the farm, the earth, the flowers and sounds - the buzzing and the longing, and the loud scene that will resonate in performance full of the pain of grief without having to explain anything. There is also a quiet way the play has of getting to the heart of the matter, far beyond the issues at hand.
  • Another Revolution
    3 Apr. 2018
    This is a beautiful play about so much with just two people, a cryingly beautiful play about the universe and our place in it, a period play that speaks to this minute, a play that is funny at times, sad at times, and real without a sink or a sofa, a large canvas in one room, the rare ways people act on each other and move each other and change or don't change - time - turning! Blows me away. . .
  • Dog Act
    3 Apr. 2018
    One of the most fun, theatrical plays ever! A feast of language and physical ferocity! I adored this play when I first heard it years back, and I enjoy it today reading it after a long time. It is just as fresh and poignant as ever!

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