←Recommendations of IN THE FOREST, SHE GREW FANGS

A darkly thrilling fairy tale capturing the hurt of being trapped as an outcast and what being a werewolf can do. Well done!

Did she ever!

Elegantly composed direct address, interrupted by bleak Mid-American reality and vivid memories, ratchet the tension while diminishing our ever-waning sense of safety. Here, it doesn't matter if you're the outcast, the jock, the hot new girl, or the Grandma; everybody carries wounds deeper than any werewolf could inflict with claws and teeth. In a way, it's about the repercussions of kissing and being kissed by the wrong person. How momentary lacerations leave permanent scars. Some move on. Others pass the pain forward.

Great roles!!! Eminently producable! Frightening, resonant and powerful.

Bone-chilling and wonderfully dark, IN THE FOREST, SHE GREW FANGS bursts with theatricality and intimacy. Stephen Spotswood has taken the typical fairytale narrative and transmogrified it into a twisted, bloodthirsty, and thrilling tale filled with incredibly complex characters that will leave you wanting more, long after reading THE END. #PlaywrightPlug

It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Stephen Spotswood and their play In the Forest, She Grew Fangs as a finalist for our 2013 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

Gorgeous language, and a smart, intense look at being an outcast in high school (but, really, an outcast on the margins of any highly structured society). This is one to read!

This is a play that I read a year ago and still think about all the time; it's a play that is at once fantastical and magical, and deeply relatable. The language is beautiful, and the structure is very theatrical, but at its core it is an exploration of evolving identity. I love this play.

In the Forest, She Grew Fangs is one of my favorite plays that we've presented in Lost Girl Theatre's Getting Lost Reading Series. It's lyrical, fantastical, deeply emotionally resonant, and one of my favorite fairytale retellings that I've come across.

This goes beyond your typical fairy tale reimagining by using a narrative-based structure of a classic fable to illuminate contemporary issues of bullying and identity. The four characters harken to their fairy tale origins, but stay compelling and smart in their own right--and their poetic dialogue is absolutely breathtaking.