Stage and Cinema says “do not miss” Such Small Hands!
“There are plays that knock you over with intensity. And there are those that seep in, settle under your skin, and stay there long after the lights come up. Adam Szymkowicz‘s Such Small Hands falls firmly in the latter category.”
“quiet but devastating meditation on memory, mortality, and devotion”
“if there’s justice in the universe of the theater gods, it will not fade into the darkness without leaving an indelible mark.”
“Szymkowicz has accomplished something rarer than simple tragedy—he has fashioned a looking glass that holds up to us our own relentless future with unforgiving candor.”
“this is no disease-of-the-week melodrama. Szymkowicz has the sense to understand that real heartbreak is not to be found in the big moments but in the daily”
“Director Matthew McCray has a keen sense of theatre space, and scenes bleed and blend together like watercolors in the rain.”
“There was a moment toward the end of the play when I began to cry. Not the showy sobs that occasionally interrupt more manipulative dramas, but the soft, involuntary tears of recognition.”
“This is what is so great about Such Small Hands—it understands that true tragedy isn’t operatic. It does not come with fanfares. It comes in the morning with coffee and pills, in the gentle corrections and patient repetitions, in the gradual accumulation of losses too small to have a name but too big to be borne.”
“In an era of theatrical bombast, when too many playwrights confuse loudness with power, Szymkowicz has done something achingly rare: a play that whispers its way into your heart and then makes itself at home there.”
“In brief, do not miss this one. It will haunt you, in all the best possible ways.”
Read the latest review of Such Small Hands from Stage and Cinema HERE.
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