"This Dominican style of music and dance, with its sensual cadence and professions of heartache, is a foundational metaphor in this boy-meets-girl two-hander by the playwright Guadalís Del Carmen...For a marital drama that runs two hours including an intermission, it feels light on substance and surprise."
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"...'Bees and Honey' may be familiar in many places, but it depicts a distinctly Latino love story, and the deep love the playwright, actors, and excellent director Melissa Crespo have for these characters' community is evident. That almost makes 'Bees and Honey' two love stories in one."
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"All the technical elements enhance the love story at the heart of 'Bees & Honey': a genuinely touching one about two essentially kind-hearted people who are trying to do right by each other and themselves."
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"In its estimation of damage done and the persistence of love, the final scene is so moving that one unhesitatingly concedes the honesty of Del Carmen's writing. If Bees & Honey could at times use an injection of drama, it at least introduces us to a new playwright worth watching. Indeed, she is exactly the sort of talent The Sol Project should be supporting and cheers to MCC for giving it such a classy production."
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"Skillfully directed by Melissa Crespo, the play's explosive two-person dialogue feels consistently activated by immediate, unseen identities... the play's bold and ambiguous conclusion implies that the power to shape such futures lies within each individual–including we spectators."
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"Whether if by design or not, it’s problematic when good jokes aren’t being shared. It’s part and parcel of the ways in which 'Bees & Honey,' in spite of two fine central performances, fails to deliver what makes for a wholly satisfying experience."
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"I’m rooting for this dissolving marriage and left concluding that their emotional obstacles have perhaps become too overbearing, crushing a relationship that may have never established solid footing."
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“ ‘Bees & Honey’ is a complicated story about a couple falling in love, creating a life together and learning to maneuver around their own ideologies and flaws.”
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