Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

I loved this play at New Georges! It still haunts me to this day - the language and the world, but mostly the characters and their desperate straits, the needs, thirst and longing in the play, but mostly how the women exist in spite of every possible reason not to, their will to go on was unforgettable.

Lyrical and intense with beauty and aching unspoken needs, this play manages to soar off the page - I can only imagine its power in performance will be multiplied many times over. We can all learn from Goldfinger's immersion in the sensory world of her characters: the sounds, smells, and the tactile pleasures of their objects are going to remain with all of us for a long time.

Happy to recommend this coming of age story about a Modern Orthodox young man who has to navigate a world his family never prepared him for reminiscent of the world of Chaim Potok with so much innocence and betrayal. What is most at stake seems to be David's ability to stay true to his own beliefs in a world where everyone's values are shifting. Could be 2016 or could be 40 years before that, either way the characters are charming!

I really enjoyed the scope of this play and the characters and all their striving. The multi-generations moving from 1976 to this century in three different times touching on several timely issues felt historical and also mythic yet Bennett keeps the play grounded in American Naturalism. Well done.

Great characters - both living and dead - all with big stakes - populate this really exciting play that asks a lot of great and timely questions, like can we be safe in this world? And what does it mean to be a man in an unsafe world? And a designer's dream - what a production it could be!

Sweet, comic, and heartbreaking! Made me happy to have read it! I really enjoyed the style - it feels quite original. Nice work!

Yes, it seems on the surface to be a math/science play, but I found it to be a metaphor about Art, what it is, how do we create it and can it be pinned down? There is a great search to understand the unfathomable here, and I ended up in love with the mystery. Beautiful work!

I like to think of Celine Song as a better version of Wallace Shawn, always taking on the large issues of civilization and how we are - or aren't - human - or the nature of humanity itself - and this play proves my thesis once again. I love her work, the language choices she makes, the rhythms and the way she draws our eyes to notice what we would typically miss. She is one of the best reasons Plato has to kill all the poets! Long live Celine Song!

Wonderful, frank comedy where the mother-daughter relationship is so loving and able to move to essentials and truth because it's set just after the death of the husband/father in that liminal time when our ability to be honest with each other is possible and necessary even with a wildly inappropriate object!

A beautiful adaptation of a poem that builds off the language in the poem to create a world inhabitable and inhospitable, loving and impossible like so much life! A wonderful sweet reverie of a play that handles death in a manageable way. I am grateful to have read it!