Refuge
by Jessica Goldberg
What readers are saying
Readers have found the play engaging, particularly appreciating its family dynamics and the underlying themes. However, some felt that the story did not fully resonate, leaving them wanting more depth.
Synopsis
THE STORY: Set in a rundown house somewhere in America, REFUGE tells the darkly funny and touching story of a young woman, Amy, forced to care for her younger brother and sister after her parents have abandoned the family and fled to Florida for a
Press Reviews
"Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. “Goldberg writes with edgy, unsentimental specificity…The characters are eccentric and real, and the dialogue snaps with humor, vulnerability and brash defensiveness. Each character is brilliantly delineated…balancing the tension between longing and protectiveness, resentment and love…A clear-eyed lament for dreams squashed in the larval stage and young lives with no horizon ahead—only a frail sense of how to survive. The play is taut and the dialogue of brief brutal sentences sadly authentic.” —Village Voice. “The dialogue is fresh and true…Goldberg has a flair for the quirky non-sequitur conversation."
— Houston Chronicle
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Publication
Refuge is a American play written by Jessica Goldberg and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2000).
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Dramatists Play Service · 2000 · 72 pp
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