←Recommendations of DREAM HOU$E

A wonderfully chaotic and beautifully messy satire about heritage, family, and what is worth hanging on to/letting go. Eliana Pipes’ boldly theatrical convention of a game show is used to brilliant effect, potently illustrating the price our two main sisters must pay. Disturbing, unsettling, and complicated, DREAM HOU$E floored and stunned me.

Clever, funny, packed with unexpected revelations and deeply moving, this show - which I saw in Sonoma County - is as full of rich ideas as it is overflowing with genuine emotional truth.

A powerful look at gentrification and family legacy through the lens of reality tv. Well done.

I had the pleasure of attending a reading of this magnificent play, which left me shook to the core. This is a searing condemnation of the American Dream told through the hilarious and heartbreaking satirical lens of reality television. Bravo! Someone needs to produce this pronto!

I love these two sisters and how different they are, and more than this, I love the specificity of this play! I can see it clearly every moment as it unfolds. Funny and touching and highly theatrical!

Playwrights Foundation congratulates DREAM HOU$E as a Finalist for BAPF 2020. This play rose to the top 35 out of 735 plays submitted, and was discussed at length by our Bay Area Literary Council for consideration in our season. We loved how this play uses the language of theater to illuminate challenging perspectives and compelling intersectional questions. This play ultimately moved & inspired us and spoke to the core mission of PF. We hope that once we’re allowed to return to our theaters again, it will be considered for production to reach new audiences.

I saw this play staged at Ars Nova's ANTFest in 2019 in a Checkmark production helmed by director Cristina Angeles, and was immediately charmed by its whip-smart blend of a home-makeover reality show and a painful (in some moments, literally) exploration of gentrification. But if at any point I felt I knew where this was going, Eliana kept pulling the rug from under me by refusing to portray any of the characters in simplistic, villains-and-heroes terms. I felt simultaneously seen and called out, and this play still has me thinking about it almost a year later!

This is an incredible, fascinating piece about family, legacy, and "progress." It asks a lot of good questions that don't have clear answers and grapples with those issues without shame. Pair it with A Raisin in the Sun in a season and grow the conversation!

I had the pleasure of seeing a Reading of Dream Hou$e at the Latinx New Play Festival at San Diego Rep. This play manages to weave in questions of gentrification, cultural heritage, and family legacy while telling hilarious and heartfelt story of two sisters. With just a dose of magical realism, this is a story that demands to be told onstage. I hope to see a full production of it soon.

A funny, sharp, deep play about families and the cost of gentrification. The playwright has crafted specific, compelling characters and a beautiful environment in the titular hou$e. I love the moments of surrealism in the play and its reality-TV elements serve the play in heightening it. Great roles for 3 female actors-- you'll laugh, your jaw will drop, you might cry, who knows!!