Refuge
by Jessica Goldberg

"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