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A deep dive into the heart of GamerGate's darkness, I LOVE YOU, VIVIAN JAMES, is a gripping story of friendship, identity, and toxicity in the age of 4-Chan. Beck viscerally captures the real, human cost of internet trolling, and beautifully renders the brutal, harrowing journey of watching a close friend slowly become radicalized. Whip-smart, hilarious, and gut-wrenchingly tragic, VIVIAN JAMES vividly and exuberantly exposes the monsters of the internet and the very real people who unleash them from their behind their keyboards.

A love-letter to both the theater and those mad enough to pursue it, "Infallibility" is a brilliant two-hander filled with split-second character transformations, papal intrigue, and all sorts of saintly shenanigans (seriously, this is the kind of play actors dream about when they dream about plays). Barbot has the ability to dissect Catholicism in such thrilling, poignant terms that, while you marvel at the absolute absurdity of the VERY REAL history unfolding before your eyes, you might just find yourself contemplating your place in the universe.

A hauntingly moving meditation on the tenacity of grief, "The Laodamiad" is a delicate, whip-smart journey into the depths of despair and, somehow improbably, a remarkable treatise on the power of hope. LiBretto has the uncanny ability to make the ancient seem relevant, urgent, and achingly human. Euripides' version might be lost to history, but, thanks to this thrilling, poetic adaptation, we have the privilege of journeying with Laodamia from the shores of Iolcus to the depths of hell in search not only of her lost husband, but, for some semblance of peace. Highly recommended, 10/10, would violently sob again.