←Recommendations of Refuge

This play is a call to action. A call to empathy for people who only want a better life. This needs to be produced all over. This play could not be more relevant. These characters are so richly written and find ways to surprise each other and suprise us as the audience. I loved the use of the ensemble as they invite the audience in to the piece through their poetic dialogue and music. Loved the choice to make the Spanish untranslated. This is a play that will connect people and help us realize no one is illegal.

A poetic meditation on the suffering of immigrants crossing the U.S. - Mexico border. Rosendorf humanizes the lives of an immigrant, a rancher, and a border patrol agent in unique and surprising ways. The play illuminates the our common connection beyond arbitrary borders, race, or the luck of the draw where one was born. An important play for our times. 5 out of 5 stars!

This is a gorgeously urgent play, with a clear focus on its characters, a deep theatricality, and a lyric poeticism. 

Rosendorf's poetry leaps off the page, resonant and clear. The way the writer approaches using two languages, English and Spanish, drew me in as a reader, it's fluid, organic, and made me ask questions, in a good way, too. The spareness of the lines speaks to their craft: Restrained, energetic, alive. How can anything be so beautiful, and elicit such strong feelings of sadness, anger, fear, in a reader? This gorgeous play so deserves to be in full-production soon. Any creative team will find luminous words, like a pathway, illuminating. Simply stunning work.

The poetics, the theatricality, the impossible complexity of everyone's situations--I thought about the play well after I finished reading.

I was fortunate to see a reading of this play at Campfire. This script confronted the audience with some of the people involved in the inhumane situations that are happening at our border. The use of puppetry was a brilliant use of theatrical magic to immerse the audience in the desert, without taking us out of the fact that the play was set in our reality.

Everyone fights to survive in the desert. I was captured by Andrew Rosendorf's script from page one. This script holds in itself an earnestness that you don't see so much with scripts centering on our Southern Border. Yes, it's inherently political, but this show focuses on the humanity in such a nuanced way that you put your political identity aside. Refuge shined at Campfire Theatre Festival and gave us something special. Thank you, Andrew for your work!

Beautiful work. Andrew builds worlds in an almost dreamlike way but still allows them the gravity and importance they demand. Urgent, immediate work with puppetry that calls for a wonderful theatricality. I had the pleasure of getting to know Andrew and his work at the 2019 LAMBDA literary conference. Andrew has a silent creativity continuously cooking and I can't wait to see where his work leads. Andrew writes plays I want to see onstage NOW.

A play for right now in every way. Even reading it, you know it's a play that will stay with you. It's crafted with so much intelligence, artistry, theatricality, and care. It will wrap itself around you and stay with you. Beautifully done.

Wow--what a beautiful piece. Definitely a play where the reading of its glorious stage directions provides a lovely glimpse into the visual, aural, sensory world the play might have on its feet. The three central characters are so finely drawn, and vivid as real and distinct human beings. Their interactions are written with tenderness and humanity. I'd be thrilled to see how the puppetry elements and other design pieces would come together to bring this piece to life further. I hope it gets developed and produced soon!