Sanctuary City Reviews
Stage and Cinema- Recommended
"...There is a language people invent when citizenship can vanish with a knock at the door. It moves sideways. It disguises itself as ordinary conversation. It turns omission into grammar. Martyna Majok's Sanctuary City hears that language with uncommon precision, then, in its later movements, begins explaining what it was initially wise enough merely to observe. American drama has rarely known how to write undocumented life without translating it into uplift or thesis. Characters arrive carrying their circumstances as exposition. The predicament explains the play. The play mistakes explanation for drama. Majok, at least for a long while, escapes that trap. She builds something riskier: a drama shaped as much by what cannot be said as by what can."
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
"...Sanctuary City, Martyna Majok's gripping, thought-provoking examination the plight of undocumented Americanized teens now makes a stunning Orange County debut at Anaheim's Chance Theater."
Stage Raw- Recommended
"...From its title you couldn’t blame anyone for expecting City to tackle one of the most urgent and contentious narratives in contemporary America: immigration. But while Martyna Majok’s 2018 play is about the struggles of two young people who have spent most of their lives in the United States yet are not legally recognized as Americans, it is not a story about politics, policy or polemics."