HOUSES WITHOUT WALLS

Houses Without Walls is a visceral portrait of motherhood. Susannah Rodriguez Drissi's play offers a culturally-specific acto that resonates across more universal narratives of mother-child relationships, most notably, what happens to the parent after the child has left home. ... full review

Drissi’s play is a sit down to enjoy a plate of sole soup when all else left on earth to eat is bile. A feast of powerful performances from Emar, Hojas and De Leon. Highly recommend it! ... full review

This was a wonderful surprise! The writing is so beautiful. It’s poetic, emotionally engaging and a compelling story. I highly recommend it.... full review

Loved it. Intimate and heart warming.... full review

A really compelling historical take on the [Cuban] woman's experience. I was transported to a heated place - literally and figuratively.... full review

My overall impression of the show was WOW, what an incredible story and what talented actors.... full review

Through the prism of mother-daughter anger and anguish, Rodriguez Drissi has created a biting examination of emigration, its causes and effects. Two mothers, living in the same house but divided by a separation wall, and two daughters, separated from those mothers by emigration to the United States, trade despairing accusations and hopeful dreams in searing language. A narrator creates a Brechtian distance between stage and spectators but eventually, parallel to the emotional trajectory of the dialogue, becomes part of the action, as the wall, for an instant, dissolves.... full review

At the intersection of love, loss, longing, trauma, and hope, Susannah Rodriguez Drissi's visceral tour de force is a raw, real depiction of humanity that will stay with audience members for years to come.... full review