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Audrey Lang

Recommended by Audrey Lang

  • FUKT by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    27 Oct. 2020
    “ FUKT is the kind of play that makes you feel less alone. It's hard to say something that hasn't already been said in its many recommendations, but it feels important to me after reading such an extraordinary piece as this one, to say something. FUKT is a story of honesty and compassion, including with and for yourself, when those things are most difficult to offer. As these three versions of one woman learn how to be less alone together, so do I. ”
  • Soon, Again, Not Yet by Aaliyah Warrington
    3 Oct. 2020
    “ I had the opportunity to see Aaliyah Warrington's incredible play SOON, AGAIN, NOT YET performed via Zoom in the 2020 IC New Play Incubator. This play packs a punch, depicting a Black woman in science and how she struggles with her past, present, and future. Even over Zoom, the power of Warrington's words, story, and well-drawn characters were apparent. ”
  • Geomancer by Leslie Lum
    26 Sep. 2020
    “ "Geomancer" is a thoughtful and thought-provoking look at real people and real events that I know I learned little if anything about in school, with a complex layering of science, politics, history, and emotions. It's the sort of play you want to read again, both to gain new insights and to re-experience the journey that Lum has created. ”
  • The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood by Kira Rockwell
    30 Aug. 2020
    “ I feel as though I could spent countless more hours just listening in on Rockwell's characters--that's how real and how interesting they are. The time I spent with them while reading "The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood" was painful and beautiful, moving and heartfelt, and truly human and nuanced: qualities that are missing in so many stories of teenage girls, but are incredibly well-done in this play. I would love to see these characters take life in production! ”
  • Do This In Memory of Me by Cat Walsh
    17 Aug. 2020
    “ A touching, humorous play about a girl dealing with grief, loss, and smashing the patriarchy in her own way. "Do This In Memory of Me" feels simultaneously irreverent but also the most reverent--a contradiction that deepens Genevieve's complex story even further. An exciting, powerful, and powerfully theatrical journey! ”
  • The Feast of All Saints by Cat Walsh
    15 Aug. 2020
    “ This story of a complicated family includes deliciously creepy scares and deliciously authentic relationships. A fun read—but I’d love even more to see it produced and watch this exciting play come to life onstage! ”
  • OFF THE PALISADES PARKWAY by Nick Malakhow
    24 Jul. 2020
    “ Nick Malakhow has a way of revealing humanity when he writes, and this play is no exception to that. Every character has such a depth and you want to keep spending time with them, even as you cringe when they hurt each other. I love this honest look at teenage characters, which doesn’t judge them, and takes them all as people in an extraordinary way. ”
  • GRIT (formerly "What They Think We Are") by Nick Malakhow
    1 Jul. 2020
    “ A powerful look at race, sexual orientation, and isolation in a privileged school setting. I love that as present as the white, privileged voices around Sasha and Raymond are via text messages, they are the two characters whose story is placed centrally (as they are the only two characters we see or hear from directly onstage). This conveys a clear and direct sense of the environment they are living and learning in while giving the reader or audience a focused look at their specific pain and loneliness in a world where they are the "others." ”
  • Masculinity Max by MJ Kaufman
    1 Jul. 2020
    “ I just watched "Masculinity Max" in Pride Plays and I am so taken with this gorgeous play. I laughed, I almost cried and found myself trying not to--an interesting and revelatory moment to have in my experience of this particular play. I gained a deeper understanding of what it means to be trans from this play, but more importantly, I felt myself, a cis lesbian, relating to every character and understanding gender in a new way. I need to see this play produced and I'd also love to see it become required reading in theatre and gender classes. ”
  • A PICTURE OF TWO BOYS by Nick Malakhow
    26 Jun. 2020
    “ A PICTURE OF TWO BOYS is most beautiful to me in the moments that feel ugliest. It is an important look at trauma, the deep and painful shame that is found when the feelings surrounding a trauma are not the feelings you're "supposed" to have about that experience, and the struggles of friendship when one of the most significant things connecting you may be that trauma. I believe this play will change the lives of young men fortunate enough to play Pete and Markey and young audience members alike. ”

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