Recommended by Grant MacDermott

  • Grant MacDermott: Branwell (and the other Brontes): an autobiography edited by Charlotte Bronte by Stephen Kaplan
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    This play is a profound, witty, heartbreaking, cutting, and imaginative exploration of what it is to be a sibling, and what it is to be a creative. An uncanny weaving of Brontë trivia and history with the familiar bickering of sibling rivalry gives this play a familiar yet completely unexplored feeling with every line. It is deeply moving, devilishly witty, and entertaining the way that only the Brontës could be, but here in Mr. Kaplan's hands, even more so.

    This play is a profound, witty, heartbreaking, cutting, and imaginative exploration of what it is to be a sibling, and what it is to be a creative. An uncanny weaving of Brontë trivia and history with the familiar bickering of sibling rivalry gives this play a familiar yet completely unexplored feeling with every line. It is deeply moving, devilishly witty, and entertaining the way that only the Brontës could be, but here in Mr. Kaplan's hands, even more so.

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  • Grant MacDermott: Connected by Lia Romeo
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    I had the pleasure of being in a reading of this elegantly simple and profound play. Ms. Romeo captures where technology has taken us and where it will keep us for the foreseeable future in real ways with young characters who sound as if they were walking down the halls of a high school. She captures our tangled and complex relationship with technology (and therefore each other) and the equally complex language we use to navigate the obstacle-ridden path to understanding our need for technology and ultimately each other.

    I had the pleasure of being in a reading of this elegantly simple and profound play. Ms. Romeo captures where technology has taken us and where it will keep us for the foreseeable future in real ways with young characters who sound as if they were walking down the halls of a high school. She captures our tangled and complex relationship with technology (and therefore each other) and the equally complex language we use to navigate the obstacle-ridden path to understanding our need for technology and ultimately each other.

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