Playwrights Foundation enthusiastically recommends this play KINGDOM (a play about Snow White and Climate Change), as a Semi-Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020. We were moved by the quality of the writing and the relevant and compelling themes that spoke to the mission of our festival. It excelled in a competitive process of 735 plays submitted this year and rose to the top after a six month long process discussing its merits with both national and local Bay Area readers, and we hope it moves swiftly towards production.

Barnett’s imagination has a wild edge. The poetic power of her language conveys by way of incantation, tersely witty dialogue, and a mythical grasp of natural imagery (the Waterfall speaks truth to power, also to a blind girl). She twists strands of Norse myth and Snow White’s possible “ever after” into a daring and marvelous play — I would love to see an anime version of it.