-McCraney's richly drawn characters and colloquial poetry . . . manages to sound both epic and rooted in a specific place. Listen closely, and you might hear that thrilling sound that is one of the main reasons we go to the theater, that beautiful music of a new voice.---The New York Times
-Taut, expressive drama, The Brothers Size realizes the potential of theater to elevate the ordinary. . . . McCraney's writing can be arresting.---Time Out New York
This is the first collection by Tarell Alvin McCraney, a major new playwright of the American theater....
-McCraney's richly drawn characters and colloquial poetry . . . manages to sound both epic and rooted in a specific place. Listen closely, and you ...
-An exhilarating, multi-layered new play.---The Guardian
-Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work.---Daily News
-Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . . but McCraney's speech holds its own, locating poetry even in casual vernacular and again demonstrating his gift for simile and metaphor.---The Village Voice
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-An exhilarating, multi-layered new play.---The Guardian
-Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident wor...
