WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING
Trucker Rhapsody & Other Plays is a sweeping and incisive exploration of what it means to be human in an American landscape of conflict, unrest, and inequality during the past 50+ years. When she holds a mirror up to nature in these plays, we may not like what we see, but perhaps we won’t be so quick to look away.
—Dr. Judith Sebasta, Austin Community College
These plays, set in recent historical moments of heightened pressures and conflicting interests, are nonetheless driven by the characters in all their flesh-and-blood humanity, their impulses both grand and trivial. . . .Her skill at weaving divergent threads and points-of-view into one complex, irresolvable but co-arising American experience is unique.
—Susan Marsden, Resident Director, Eureka Theatre (Retired)
Toni Press-Coffman is a humane creator of characters struggling to navigate their interwoven lives. Times and spaces overlap as we witness their struggles to form community in a world of disunity.
—James Reel, Arts Critic and Journalist
The storytelling of Press-Coffman's Trucker Rhapsody pulls no punches. Her play, utilizing language and rhythm, evokes the history it tells and challenges the audience to keep watching. Although it's an iconic story that many know, we leave it learning more about the heart of the characters and the day's imprint upon so many lives.
—Katherine Murphy, Director
Perhaps Toni Press-Coffman’s greatest gift as a writer is to break open her characters (widely diverse, spanning centuries, races, genders, class and politics) to reveal their beating hearts. . . . Given voice by a theatrical language, both heightened and deceptively natural, her plays pulse with a driving rhythm and flashes of searing imagery.
—Brad Erickson, Playwright and Executive Director, Theatre Bay Area
