Jack Was Kind
by Tracy Thorne

"This is a play about complicity — about wives who tend to their husbands’ honor even when they are violent, or otherwise dangerous. But it’s also about the social conditioning that taught those women, when they were girls, to put the menfolk first."

— Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times

"Devastating... Thorne probes the nature of an unfortunately confused wife’s challenge on where she places her loyalty to erring husband Jack and to teenagers Flo and Eli. Within that conundrum is the societal question of a wife’s (sacred?) obligation to a husband, no matter what she knows, or suspects, he’s done."

— NY Stage Review