Refuge
by Jessica Goldberg

Name: Refuge
Brand: Jessica Goldberg
SKU: 9780822217770
Rating: 3.68 (21 reviews)

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

90 mins Interior Set American

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