cover graphic design by Amelia Nardinelli, American Conservatory Theater
“…Rivera’s teasingly engrossing stage reality…
…It’s a return to the
postapocalyptic landscape this most magical-realist of major American
playwrights has explored in such compelling works as MARISOL and REFERENCES TO
SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT, among his many plays…
…Rivera eschews external surreal symbols this time to delve directly into the
chaos of his characters’ disordered minds.
The result is both an engrossing descent into the traumatized inner realms of
three very different, isolated women… Each flight of concentrated poetry is
vividly written…
Rivera has created an intriguing and evocative drama with the social and
psychological terrors that have leapt from the grottoes of the women’s minds.”
Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
“…This real-time
drama…unfolds beautifully and offers great insight into how basic human nature
desires can go bizarrely astray when the world is falling apart.”
Giattina, San Francisco Bay Guardian
world premiere at American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco
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