“ There is a delicacy to this play that is so exquisite -- structurally it feels like watching the lifespan of a flower, first blossoming, then wilting, but then a new bloom emerging. Brisé finds with ease and grace the intimate details which populate our memory, how we take those for granted, how much it would hurt to lose them. But hardly a doom-and-gloom piece, Ian's play is a remarkably hopeful carpe diem of a story, exhorting and exulting and exciting its audience to hold onto both the things we love and the things we have a hard time loving. ”

“ After a reading of this play, I was drunk on the world Jessica creates to sustain the considerable radius of her ideas, themes, the empathy she has for her characters. This story creates a community in its audience, swept along in a narrative that manages to be an education, a ghost story, a history lesson, a family drama, a generational parable, and a sneakily raucous comedy when it wants to be. It's drawn sensitively but without sentiment, magically without being twee or oblique. It's a miraculous thing and I'm thrilled to see it widely produced, as it surely will be. ”

“ I can't wait for this play to storm the ramparts of modern theatre -- it's just one piece of evidence of Celine's particular brand of genius, but it's a deeper dive (pun intended) into the impossible task of self-examination that all artists wade through, done without the usual helpings of narcissism or self-absorption. Instead, it's delicious and delirious and full of fun, fantasy, longing, and more meta than you could throw a stick at (in the best possible ways). Celine skewers the genre of "playwrights who write about themselves" and, at the same time, makes the world her oyster. ”

“ Allond(R)a is irresistible - it aches and swells with the wonderful bawdy humor, outsize joy, and sunlit heartbreak of small lives and loves in the big city. Gina is one of the great empathy experts of the theatre, loving her characters in a way that makes them full-hearted and nuanced in their every sunny, sad, soulful, or searing interaction. Allond(R)a does for Brooklyn what Wim Wenders does for Berlin or what Trainspotting does for down-and-out Edinburgh -- glorifies its sweaty, silly, wayward, wonderful heart. ”