Recommended by Nikki Brake-Silla

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    I cannot stop thinking about this play since seeing it both weekends during PlayPenn. Such a beautiful, funny, and raw portrayal of the ending of a relationship. What does it mean when you've seen the end from the beginning? How can you disentangle your love for a person from the art that you made together and not conflate the pain caused by both? I would watch this over and over again.

    I cannot stop thinking about this play since seeing it both weekends during PlayPenn. Such a beautiful, funny, and raw portrayal of the ending of a relationship. What does it mean when you've seen the end from the beginning? How can you disentangle your love for a person from the art that you made together and not conflate the pain caused by both? I would watch this over and over again.

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    WHAT A GEM! This hit all my buttons. It's such a lovely and tender story about the family you choose. How important that family is to shape, love, and hold us. Bravo. Gave me all the feels in a great way, and I would LOVE to see this on stage.

    WHAT A GEM! This hit all my buttons. It's such a lovely and tender story about the family you choose. How important that family is to shape, love, and hold us. Bravo. Gave me all the feels in a great way, and I would LOVE to see this on stage.

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    Had the pleasure of watching this during BAPF45 and sobbed throughout the entire piece. It is a beautiful work about grief, familial pressures and parents, children, and when you are a caregiver. Love the use of the couches and the space to tell this cathartic story.

    Had the pleasure of watching this during BAPF45 and sobbed throughout the entire piece. It is a beautiful work about grief, familial pressures and parents, children, and when you are a caregiver. Love the use of the couches and the space to tell this cathartic story.

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    This play has moments that absolutely gutted me. Such a taut story about the road traveled when soldiers return home carrying the ghosts of their tour. It's an engrossing piece that any actor will be proud to give life and the audience will leave questioning if the price of their freedom is too high.

    This play has moments that absolutely gutted me. Such a taut story about the road traveled when soldiers return home carrying the ghosts of their tour. It's an engrossing piece that any actor will be proud to give life and the audience will leave questioning if the price of their freedom is too high.

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    Such a beautiful piece that deals with how to love someone through their pain and when you have nothing but moments snatched from the air. It's a great conversation on the magic and doubt that comes from connections made as a by product of isolation.

    Such a beautiful piece that deals with how to love someone through their pain and when you have nothing but moments snatched from the air. It's a great conversation on the magic and doubt that comes from connections made as a by product of isolation.

  • Nikki Brake-Silla: Alligator Mouth, Tadpole Ass by C. Julian Jiménez
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    "Alligator Mouth, Tadpole Ass" is a cat and mouse chase that unravels family secrets. It's a play about magic, joy and looking for daddy's in all the wrong places. It's also a play about what makes family home and what happens when that home is taken away. A beautiful play and production. Thank you Theatre Rhinoceros and Julian for giving the people what we need.

    "Alligator Mouth, Tadpole Ass" is a cat and mouse chase that unravels family secrets. It's a play about magic, joy and looking for daddy's in all the wrong places. It's also a play about what makes family home and what happens when that home is taken away. A beautiful play and production. Thank you Theatre Rhinoceros and Julian for giving the people what we need.

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  • Nikki Brake-Silla: The Lonely (A Fictionally Non-Accurate Historical KiKi) by Andrew Rincon
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    UGH! MY HEART IS SO DAMN FULL! This play. Was blessed to bear witness to this wonderful work and I love the heart and realness. All of my favs in one room and it was messy and beautiful and TRUTH as a lie. BRAVO!

    UGH! MY HEART IS SO DAMN FULL! This play. Was blessed to bear witness to this wonderful work and I love the heart and realness. All of my favs in one room and it was messy and beautiful and TRUTH as a lie. BRAVO!

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  • Nikki Brake-Silla: IN COMMON by Quinn D. Eli
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    I had the pleasure of watching this play as part of the Panndora's Box Festival. I was blown away by the love expressed by these characters and the power of grief and love that transcends death. A beautiful work that is heartfelt and timely.

    I had the pleasure of watching this play as part of the Panndora's Box Festival. I was blown away by the love expressed by these characters and the power of grief and love that transcends death. A beautiful work that is heartfelt and timely.

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  • Nikki Brake-Silla: Scraps by Quinn D. Eli
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    This play is witty, sharp, biting with real laugh out loud moments. "Scraps" does an incredible job of building and layering various tropes of fantasy and race and shows us what happens when we are no longer satisfied with scraps. When the play ended it left me wanting a full meal. Bravo!

    This play is witty, sharp, biting with real laugh out loud moments. "Scraps" does an incredible job of building and layering various tropes of fantasy and race and shows us what happens when we are no longer satisfied with scraps. When the play ended it left me wanting a full meal. Bravo!

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  • Nikki Brake-Silla: DERECHO by Noelle Viñas
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    This play builds like a quiet storm. Each crumb building to an explosive reckoning. It is a play about sisters, family and communication and how control when cloaked in love tools to control ones narrative about self. I was lucky enough to catch the second rendition during BAPF2020 and it did NOT disappoint!

    This play builds like a quiet storm. Each crumb building to an explosive reckoning. It is a play about sisters, family and communication and how control when cloaked in love tools to control ones narrative about self. I was lucky enough to catch the second rendition during BAPF2020 and it did NOT disappoint!

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