Broadway World - Highly Recommended
"...Pulitzer Prize nominee Tanya Barfield's brilliant BRIGHT HALF LIFE is smartly and artfully realized by director Amy K. Harmon at the Road Theatre on Magnolia. With just two actors, the energy never flags, but it does fluctuate, veering as it does from high comedy to pathos to heart-rending drama, sometimes all within the course of 30 seconds. It all adds up to another solid project from The Road Theatre, which consistently stages challenging and rewarding productions."
LA Splash - Highly Recommended
"...The Road Theatre Company continues its thirtieth anniversary repertory season with BRIGHT HALF LIFE. Penned by Pulitzer Prize nominee Tanya Barfield and directed by Amy K. Harmon, BRIGHT HALF LIFE is an actors’ showcase piece with gives ample space for its two stars to shine. This much anticipated Los Angeles premiere was developed during the author’s residency at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s National Playwrights Conference in 2014."
Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended
"...An interracial same-sex couple embark upon a four-decade-long roller-coaster ride of romantic highs and lows in the Road Theatre Company's Los Angeles Premiere of Tanya Barfield's Bright Half Life, as funny and sad and moving a two-character dramedy as I've seen in ages."
ArtsBeatLA - Highly Recommended
"...Plays that chart the course of a romantic relationship have long been a staple of theater. Stories told in a nonlinear way are less common but not unheard of. When you take the previous two structures and apply them to the topic of a lesbian interracial marriage, the result is a work that one doesn't often see in American theater, which is refreshing. What's better is that Tanya Barfield's Bright Half Life is more than the sum of its diverse parts, a moving, funny and smart play currently receiving an outstanding Los Angeles premiere by The Road Theatre Company."
On Stage Los Angeles - Highly Recommended
"...Popular references notwithstanding. Erica and Vicky do the dance of meeting, courtship, love & family, parents / children and issues all in one fluid motion that sometimes makes sense. Sometimes. Director Amy K. Harmon, sends her actors running full tilt straight out of the gate. The pace may occasionally change, but mostly it's Hell Bent for Something."
NoHoArtsDistrict - Highly Recommended
"...The two actresses that perform this monumental 90-minute feat of emotional and physical gymnastics are transcendent. They have to be really, to channel this sublime work, effortlessly gifting us the highs and lows of thirty years of love. Kacie Rogers as Vicky and Tiffany Wolff as Erica are mesmerizing, transportive, utterly fearless and yet so sweetly full of fear."
Gia on the Move - Highly Recommended
"...BRIGHT HALF LIFE at The Road Theatre in North Hollywood is nothing less than exhilarating; genuine theater baddassery in your face – empathetic and very personal. Sit up front."
Showmag - Highly Recommended
"...Playwright Barfield cleverly winds past and present through the thread of their relationship – through Coney Island rides, Sky Diving excursions and the more mundane job of raising children. Through it all, we see the mechanics of how the relationship works. Erica is governed by sensation and experiences, while Vicky is more grounded and realistic. Watching the two negotiate their lives together and ultimate return to each other is both intriguing and rewarding."
Stage Raw - Highly Recommended
"...This production of Bright Half Life blends the simple and the complex with elegance, resulting in a truly rewarding evening of theater."
