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Plays that create new worlds
Soar with imagination
Burrow for forgotten feelings
Bounce with laughter
Surprise with twisty juxtapositions;
Magic carpets
Whizzing back and forth in time
Touching down
On the real, unreal, and super-real.


New play scripts available for premieres, productions and perusal
from award-winning, published, New York playwright at Rising Solo.
ROBIN
RICE LICHTIG


"Robin's writing is innately musical."   - Maria Irene Fornes

"Lichtig's language shimmers with humanity."    - Hamilton Clancy, Artistic Director, The Drilling Company (NYC)


"Robin is a talented and imaginative writer with a unique voice that combines often quirky characters with penetrating psychological insight. Her plays are highly theatrical, often containing a delightful magical element that transports the audience."   - Sherry Teitelbaum, director (NYC)      


" Ms. Lichtig nails the 'ah-ha' moment that audiences love. The balancing act she's perfected between outrageous humor and tender sentiment is an art form meant to be seen on stage again and again."
                                                                                           - Maureen Brady Johnson, educator, playwright (Ohio)
                     
"Robin is absolutely terrific to work with. She's smart, motivated, passionate, and we were gratified by how thoughtful she was to every individual involved in the collaborative process."
                                                     -  Jennie Webb, Development Director, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum (CA)                             
"Lichtig's style is more than charming -- it's disarming.  She pokes holes in our runaway expectations."    - Dominik  Loncar, Artistic Director, InspiraTO (Toronto)


"The sensitivity with which Robin handles cultural tensions and stories allows for her writing to connect with the audience and the artists. We believe theater can be a catalyst for cultural change and raise community awareness. It's refreshing to find an artist who shares our vision."
                                    - Alberto Justiniano, Artistic Director, Teatro del Pueblo (MN)


"The show itself (THE POWER OF BIRDS) explores the metaphor of birds so fully that it feels as if the audience is watching a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel on stage. "   - Michael Roderick, review for broadwayworld.com


"Robin Rice Lichtig is a resourceful and thoughtful writer who is confronting some of the most difficult issues we face today."
                                          - John Clinton Eisner, Producing Director, The Lark (NYC)
                                            
For synopses of these full-length plays as well as one-acts and monologues, click SCRIPT SYNOPSES .
                                  
Frontier   Lola and the Planet of Glorious Diversity   The Power of Birds
Play Nice!       Suki Livingston Opens Like a Parachute   Music of the Spheres
Humans Remain  Embracing the Undertoad       Women w/o Walls
Listen! The River Searching for a New Sun         Necessary Geography
Alice in Black and White           Morsels Three                                                           Feathers Fly
page last updated:  1/12
"I was most struck by the verbal and visual poetry (in SEARCHING FOR A NEW SUN).   - Donatella Galella, CUNY blogger

"NECESSARY GEOGRAPHY deals with timely issues in a compelling and dramatically satisfying way. The actors who were involved with the reading were intrigued by the vibrant characters as well as by the historical  information revealed in the play."   - Catherine Rowe Pherson, producer, Villagers Theatre (NJ)


" Robin's plays are imaginative and exciting -- statues come to life, tugboats fall in love, grandmothers slowly change into birds, an ancient civilization emerges from the forests of New Jersey -- and written to be both seen and heard. Movement and environment are crucial elements in her work. The complexity of the relationships in her plays, the richness of her metaphors, and her facility with language make for challenging and rewarding theater."   - Michele Travis, director (NYC)


"...I was quite taken by (Robin's) ear for dialogue and the breadth and control of her narrative."
                                                                                  - Adrien-Alice Hansel, literary manager, Actors Theatre of Louisville


"There is never a dull moment in WOMEN w/o WALLS. It is an unusual look at four people trapped together against their will. The characters are richly layered and textured. A play with four excellent roles for women isn't easy to find! The play is also a good creative challenge for an imaginative director, designer and technical crew."                                                                                                                                          - Jennifer Winegardner, producer

"Ms. Lichtig is a very talented writer. She is sensitive to the unique demands of writing for the stage, and approaches the process of script development with intelligence and enthusiasm. She brings strong opinion and commitment to the interplay which is at the heart of the collaborative process, but her openness and sense of humor help make the process itself a delight."    - Joyce Stilson, associate artistic director, Alleyway Theatre (Buffalo)


"THE FORTIFICATION OF MISS GRACE WREN is one of the most touching pieces relating to 9/11 that I have seen, told with the simplicity and earnestness of a grade school history lesson."     - Julie Sharbutt, review for offoffonline


"The play is a thoughtful reminder that history past often understands the demons of the present."
                                                                                                         - Jean Bartlett, Arts Correspondent, Pacifica Tribune


"EMBRACING THE UNDERTOAD is a theater company's dream: a play that features an authentic narrative arc, elegant language and characters with real depth and humanity."
                                      - Kate Cox and Deshja Driggs Hall, co-artistic directors, This Woman's Work Theatre Co. (NYC)


"EMBRACING THE UNDERTOAD  really hooked me. Keep your handkerchief handy."
                                                                                                           - Joseph E. Boling, reviewer, Theatre Puget Sound


"Through her imaginative twists, Robin lifts stories of basic human emotion into the realm of theatrical art. She has a wonderful ability to make you laugh -- and then she makes you cry. She makes you think. Then she makes you laugh again."   - Heidi Heimark, artistic director (Seattle)

"Using Frederic Remington himself as a foil in BRONCO BUSTER is a comic stroke of genius."                                                                                                                                                                       - John FitzGibbon, director (NYC)

"Beautiful. Poetry. Robin has a way of building suspense within the plot while allowing the characters to just be themselves. She creates the exact kind of work that I look for both as an artist and as an audience member."
                                                                                                                             - Bryan Kenneth, director and actor (NYC)
Emma Galvin and Jay Potter in THE POWER OF BIRDS from 3Graces, NYC.
Nicole Greevy in ONE TWO GREEN BLUE at ManhattanTheatreSource.
Ernest Briggs and Geoffrey Flores in THE GREAT ALL-DOMINICAN CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYOFF GAME at Teatro del Pueblo, Minneapolis.
Recent productions in New
York, South Africa, Berlin,  Washington, D.C.
                            Robin with the Elements.
         
              Artwork by Ruby Rice. www.vhasanctuary.com
"Robin's work limns those delicate and dangerous places between love and hate, freedom and obligation, reality and surreality, comfort and fear."
                      - Stuart Spencer, playwright (author " The Playwright's Guidebook")

  
"The truth and vivid wonder in all life's moments were thrilling to bring to life." - E.E. Moe, actor, Phoenix Theatre (AZ)


"An incredible balance of humor and depth." - Elisa Whiteman, actor in PURITY AND THE PRINCE (OH)

"Funny, heartfelt, pointed, FEATHERS FLY is an insightful comment on American environmentalism, the press, the power of celebrities. What makes it most poignant is that it is based on actual events. I loved directing this gem!"
                                                                                                                                          - Daedra Kaehler, director (NYC)
"Working with Robin was as successful an experience as one could ask for."  - Dan Schay, dir., Phoenix Theatre (AZ)

"THE POWER OF BIRDS - masterful; lyrical, funny and painful; touching and clever."- Beth Schachter, NYC audience

"Robin's voice resounds in universal relevance."    - Coni Ciongoli-Koepfinger, playwright
"If you're looking for a story about the healing power of faith in yourself as well as those who are closest to you, then THE POWER OF BIRDS will leave you enchanted."    - Karen Tortora-Lee, review for The Happiest Medium

"The play (EMBRACING THE UNDERTOAD) was sort of like Tennessee Williams meets Edward Albee. It was refreshing to see theater work the way it should. Bravo."   - Reed Bernstein, reviewer (NYC)

"THE POWER OF BIRDS is sheer theatricality in its loveliest and nearly highest form -- nuts and bolts purposefully veiled ever-so-thinky so that we may look past allegory, its style allowing us to embrace the magical, the story-telling side of theater, while giving us quite nearly three-dimensional people onto whom we can latch emotionally, about whom we care. The fine balance here is finely struck. It's all precisely what a play ought to be; it dips and pivots the ethereal, while planting itself firmly in story and character, somewhere just right, halfway between the sky and the ground. Don't miss the power of theater. Go see THE POWER OF BIRDS."
                                                                                                                                - Paul Hufker, review for nytheatre.com

"There is an image-rich quality to Robin's prose. Her writer's voice is searching and deep. The stories pierce me. The emotional images will remain with me. Her writing is the result of a fine scalpel, sweet and sharp, like a miniature carving in ivory."   - Joan Paylo, PEN Central (NYC)
"In much the same way that Gabriel Garcia Marquez has woven fantastical elements into his gritty realistic tales, playwright Lichtig weaves magic into one of the most difficult situations for a pre-teen and leaves her audience questioning what is real and what is in the mind of a child."
                                                                              - Review of THE POWER OF BIRDS from One Producer in the City (NYC)
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