"...Though TO GILLIAN begins as a
simple dramatization of its hero's obsessive mourning, it
gradually expands to become a richer form of family drama.... Mr
Brady...writes with a rueful sophistication that keeps his
story's sentimentality at bay....TO GILLIAN is peppered with
sharp, evenhanded observations about the tenuous ties that
connect husbands and wives and parents and children. ...if TO
GILLIAN is a play that sends a ghost flying out of [the] heavens,
its appeal derives from its author's keen sensitivity to life
down here on earth."
Frank Rich, The New York Times
"This first major work by Michael
Brady has well-dimensioned characters, solid conflict, piquant
writing and gives off a warm, affirmative glow....When it has
become not uncommon to encounter plays with no sympathetic
characters, audiences will respond affectionately to everyone In
GILLIAN. Working on a small canvas, the author is in impressive
control of his material...."
Richard Hummler, Variety
originally produced at the Ensemble Studio Theater, New York
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