What the Critics are Saying about Harriet's Return |
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"It was amazing... 30 characters in the play, but only one woman on stage... In a stunning performance playwright and actor Karen Jones Meadows takes her audience through every emotion from humor to heartache and ultimately... humility.
"Harriet's Return... reaches inside its heroine's thoughts all the way to her soul... The playwright supplies Harriet with "voices" who embody, among other flesh-and-blood characters, the voices inside Harriet's head that guide her to her choices... The play imitates its heroine's pragmatism in a particularly moving way."
"Harriet's Return is theater as a textural historic journey, lucid in story through character and resplendent with images of the mind. It is a theater experience not to be missed."
"By beginning Harriet's Return in a swank restaurant, playwright Karen Jones Meadows grabs our attention... Harriet is going to teach us about the stuff that didn't stop on Emancipation Day... The words are harrowing..."
"Hypnotic, Historical, Haunting..."
"Meadows' tight writing has muscle and wit... Her Tubman is a simple woman, unexceptional but curious, smart and tough. In short, she has all the makings of the classic American hero."
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Cristina Kessler, Virgin Islands Daily News