“An impressive and occasionally beautiful meditation on the mysteries of being moved.” – The New Yorker
“An engaging new comedy by a young playwright with a probing, understated voice... Its quiet rewards steal up on you.” – The New York Times
“Body Awareness is indeed very funny, skewering everything from the
professor’s pretensions to the blunt sex talk Frank delivers to Jared...
Baker’s dialogue is tart and personable, with just enough unexpected
twists in the characterizations to keep you leaning forward... [Baker] has a lovely ability to comically mock types and
trends while exposing the raw seams in her characters.” – The Washington Post
Editor's Pick! “The deepest and richest of the three plays by Annie Baker that make up the Shirley, VT Plays Festival.” – The Boston Globe
“Sexuality's endless capacity to make us miserable is the keynote of Annie Baker's gentle satire, which takes just four actors and 90 minutes to spin an astonishingly complex web of emotions and ideas... Body Awareness is a smart, modest work about ordinary, flawed people, grasping for connection, but none of it feels small, thanks to Baker's sharp ear for the deeply painful - and funny - longings squirming under her characters' dialogue. What a beautiful start to a young playwright's theatrical body of work.” – Time Out New York