Recommended by Grant MacDermott

Romeo has, yet again, written something that feels so right now and yet has echoes of the past and will undoubtedly be relative for years to come. Marrying political with personal she shines so brightly a light on all the ways we as humans can be infected--by disease, by ideologies, by prejudice, by our pasts--and suggests, in the most subtle and honest of ways that there is a solution to it all. You feel at the end she has given you the answer and yet she, so artfully, has not. The answer is in the conversations this play will generate.

This play is full of so much wit, insight, heart, humor, and humanity. Lia, in her usual amazingly economical dialogue, gets right to the heart of each character and each scene with incredible dexterity. A wonderful commentary on how grief and capitalism intersect with a simultaneous razor sharp accurate critique of the hustle culture of an artist. I was laughing one minute, nodding the next, and then gasping at the truth bombs she drops every page. Highly recommend this play.

This play is so deeply accurate as to what it is to be a teen online and only gets more relevant with time. Had the pleasure of seeing Charlie himself perform it and it is really a joy to watch.

An absolutely lovely piece that makes you know and appreciate that you are alive and that one can be alive in so many different ways. The character of Jordan is one of the best I've read in a very very long time. It's the kind of role people accept statues for. The language of every character leaps off the page and is so wonderfully idiosyncratic and distinct. The relationships are achingly true. Read this play. Then produce it. It's just that simple.

Wonderfully cute as it evokes the spirit of Christmas, Orange Is The New Black, and the work of Stephen Adly Guirgis. Warmed my heart in some cold times.

I am often hesitant when plays feel "too current" or have their finger too much on the pulse because I fear they won't age well. That will never be the case with this play. Neill has crafted an achingly human story that can be and will be applicable in the future. There is a quiet power in its wonderful ability to find emotional proximity in a world that demands physical distance. Like any good play it is about so much more than it seems. Incredibly well done. Someone do this play.

So funny. So dark. The exact release you need when life is bafflingly unpredictable and yet. . . totally predictable. What Romeo does here is simultaneously challenge our status quo while leaning into it and somehow brings both those spheres to a new, elevated plane. Fantastic work as always.

An excellent play that is fiercely and boldly written. A wonderfully constructed play that weaves the myth of Antigone with a production of Antigone with notes of Antigone in the relationship of the main characters. Brilliantly done. A sign of an excellent writer is even at the end I found myself feeling for each character, even the one who commit huge wrongs.

One of the most beautifully, elegantly, and effortlessly crafted plays I've read in a while. A quintessential Romeo play but with an extra layer of poetry and heart that made me catch my breath, laugh out loud, and wipe a tear away more than once. An achingly human play that doesn't give you any answers just more questions and yet at the end you find yourself comforted and as if you have truly learned something. And as a man who lost his father to Alzheimer's, Romeo does an impeccable job of capturing the disease with accuracy and understanding. Well done.

This is a haunting play about all we have lost and what we can gain. With an economy of language and action unlike I have seen before it shifts the earth within you and you are absolutely changed by its almost imperceptible yet seismic movements, just like that of a plant flowering into bloom; you didn't see it, but somehow, by the end, there is a flower. This play is like a fine gardening tool, it opens you up and plants something there and it grows and grows long after you've experienced it. Someone please do this incredible play.