“ Y’all. Sara Farrington’s brain is magical and a little scary. Her avant garde film/play hybrid MENDACITY is astonishing: she’s taken Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, puréed it, and strained it through January 6th and The Big Lie. The parallels she finds between Tennessee Williams’ family drama and the state of Democracy now - the resonances about lies, self-delusion, and power - repeatedly took my breath away. Plus the deranged, mad theatricality of it all! A gripping, weird, and wonderful dissection of where we are. ”

“ In THE POLYCULE, Jillian Blevins has given us the modern comedy Moliere would write were he around today, observing the sexual and gender politics of the 21st century. A perfect marriage of form and content, Blevins rhyming couplets mine comic gold from the complex rules, taboos, and self-identifications of this non-monogamous circle of characters, as well as the secrets, self-deceptions, and hypocrisies that lie underneath. The real marvel is she does all this without belittling anyone's gender identity or sexual interests: though set in a specific demi-monde, it's a remarkably warm-hearted skewering of universal human foibles. Brava! ”

“ Jesus, what a hard road this play travels. Hard, but important: this is a warts-and-all deep dive into the twisted and twisting effects of body shame, gay beauty standards, and homophobia (both the internal and external varieties). Mandy's quest for answers about her brother Eric's death leaves no one unscathed or unindicted, including Eric himself. But Osmundsen's compassion for his characters is apparent alongside his righteous wrath, giving us moments of tenderness and grace that allow us to feel for all of these wounded and wounding people. Hard, sad, and strangely lovely. ”

“ Plays of this short length usually have time to do One Thing; here Debra Cole does the One Thing…and then she gets you with Another Thing. And in the process she manages to do Yet Another Thing, taking a pointed-but-affectionate poke at our specific cultural moment - one of shifting assumptions around gender - and the eternal war of teens against dad jokes that spans generations. A lot of layers in a short, tasty bite. ”