Demystifying the Immigrant Experience
The StarTribune
"To pack up and leave your loved ones, change your language, your food, for an unknown land -- that's a huge risk," [Kapil] said. "We have romanticized it as a nation of immigrants, but it involves a lot of loss and often ends in failure. This play is about celebrating the spirit of those who made the leap"... "Agnes Under the Big Top," which premieres today at Mixed Blood Theatre, deals with the isolation…
‘Love Person’ Front & Center
American Theatre Magazine
Heart-pounding attraction, intense all-night conversations - Aditi Brennan Kapil’s Love Person captures the giddiness of new love affairs. But the play is even more eloquently realistic about the wear and tear that time wreaks on relationships. The story focuses on two couples: Free and Maggie, and Vic and Ram. Free is a deaf woman who communicates through American Sign Language; Maggie…
Startling ‘Love Person’
TC Daily Planet
… The play developed into a moving, nuanced, and provocative exploration of language, intimacy, and the real-world landscape of relationships… With a deft touch, Aditi Brennan Kapil’s play, through Risa Brainin’s direction, covers the shiny obliviousness of first attraction, filial jealousy, erosion of intimacy, and the connections and estrangements that occur through language…