God's Ear

"Words gush forth in torrents, spewing up like geysers on a ghostly plain, in God's Ear, an arrestingly odd new play by Jenny Schwartz that will surely fascinate many . . . The superbly realized production of God's Ear that opened Thursday night at the Vineyard Theater is the same one that was presented to much acclaim last year by the adventurous Off Off Broadway theater company New Georges . . . God's Ear is composed of virtuosic monologues and dialogues that reveal Ms. Schwartz's gift for constructing quirky lyrical riffs that stop making sense and then start up again from one line to the next . . . The cleverness of the writing is undeniable, and certainly diverting."—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

"A provocative, adventuresome, beautifully written play."—Edward Albee

"This ode to love, loss, and the routines of life has the economy and dry wit of a Sondheim love song . . . Schwartz is a real talent and she is trying something ambitious . . . In [her] very modern way, [she is] making a rather old-fashioned case for the power of the written word."—Jason Zinoman, The New York Times

"[Schwartz] masterfully use[s] language without ever trusting it to tell the truth . . . Just like Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking, Schwartz knows that unbearable news can make us turn our daily lives into distracting flights of fancy."—Mark Blankenship, Variety

"What is revolutionary is Schwartz's ability to make linguistic gamesmanship into something profoundly moving."—Helen Shaw, Time Out New York

"A playwright to reckon with."—Alexis Soloski, The Village Voice