Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

I love Barbie, and I love this no-holds-barred approach to the classics updated for our post-modern enjoyment. Evans makes this entirely relevant in brilliant new ways. A very inventive script!

There is so much in this play that I love - the begats, the yard-sites, the way Yarchun makes everything very specific and necessary so that nothing at all is extraneous, every line of this play is the whole play. A thrilling and dramatic piece that would be so incredible to light, and then to see!

Definitely makes it into my top 10 plays for the year! Feldman manages to to give us the entire world (and its taxonomy) in her epic opus that is filled with great moments, surprises, drama, passion and always exposes the hypocrisy of "Western Civilization" mining it for comedy with her very large heart.

For the love of a cast of 9 women! For the love of dialogue that feels as fresh as sun chasing fog off the Verrazano. For the love of the spectacle of those 9 diverse women moving as a pack of dancing roller derby-ists! But mostly for the love of the twists and turns that keep this play moving where I least expect it so that I get taken for a fast and fascinating ride!

I am generally not a sci-fi fan or a fan of plays about romantic love, but this play pulled me in with its honesty, its sense of ritual (yes!), its language/pacing/rhythms, its strangeness and its urgency. I like the ideas in the play that feel epic even in such a short period of time. Well done!

Hageman does a great thing here - why there are so many recommendations for this play - because it's one of those plays that everyone needs, a play that shows us by virtue of its doing it the thing we all need to know how to do. Such a gift! Why isn't this anthologized and produced constantly? I am clueless. WHY?

I saw an excerpt of this on its feet at a conference and had to read it to see if it was all as good as those brief moments that moved me to tears, unforgettable moments out of thin air. So now I've read it, and it is beyond what I had hoped - it is REMARKABLE. It is a GREAT PLAY! Feldman has created such a feast, such an immersive experience, so moving and transcendant, I can't even ...

Boy am I glad I stopped a moment to read this play! Thank you, George Sapio! This one's a stunner! When I teach Writing the Ten-Minute Play, I always tell people to write themselves into tough spots without worrying about solving the problem, that it's all in the trying, and not in the solving, but you really turn the tables on that bit of advice, dontcha! And boy am I happier for it! This is awesome! I love a guy who can be such a convincing feminist - we need more like you out there!

Brilliant play worthy of all of its many recommendations, with beautifully precise language, characters, history, truth... I love the visceral qualities of the opening monologue and the description of the architectural design of Monticello as a place for secrets as a place that separates what is seen from what is - and Carnes exposes all that!

I love to get my teeth cleaned, and the macabre humor in this play is brilliant! So playable - would be great onstage for that moment in every festival when it's time for something completely different! This is it!