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GOING UP
Winner of three 2020 META (Montreal English Theatre Awards), including Outstanding New Text, Outstanding Emerging Playwright & Producer, Outstanding Independent Production.
Received seven 2020 META nominations.
GOING UP by Kiki Dranias / Outstanding New Text / Outstanding Emerging Writer & Producer / Outstanding Independent Production at META 2020
“...Going Up is raw, intimate, existential and erotic… it’s grittier than any set could emulate… a deeply psychological story… Dranias’s original script is nothing short of brilliant… is a must-see… Going Up will blow you away. “
Celine Cardineau, Critic, Montreal Theatre Hub
Actors Paul Van Dyck & Kelly Craig during dress rehearsal on board elevator #1.
GOING UP by Kiki Dranias receives Official Selection at the New York Independent Cinema Awards 2021
GOING UP by Kiki Dranias receives Official Selection at the LA Independent Women Film Awards 2021
“The characters were immediately gripping, their universe both savagely contemporary and timelessly archetypical...The script of Going Up is powerful, visceral, and thought provoking. The performance is a stunning experience for an audience willing to be exposed at such close proximity to so much sufferer, manipulation and rage. This play deserves to be experienced by other audiences.”
Guy Rodgers, Executive Director, English Language Arts Network (ELAN)
“…the forced intimacy between strangers, the potential of danger — all these elements intensify the possibilities for conflict… Montreal poet… a naturalistic case study… Going Up is a quirky, intensely performed, and at times breathlessly sexy… I look forward to Dranias’s next theatrical project.”
Jim Burke, Critic, Theatre Funhouse
Going Up makes Best of Montreal Theatre 2019.
Jim Burke, Theatre Critic, Montreal Gazette
“... try and get tickets to one of the most unique plays I have heard about in this city!”
Mike Cohen, The Suburban News, Montreal
BLOOD IS BLUE.
“I'm very moved by them… It's unusual these days to find poems that are passionate and complicated and yet skillful.”
John L. Koethe, Poet & Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin
“Gabriel Garcia Marquez became a writer after reading the opening page of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. ‘I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that,’ he said to himself. Blood is blue. is written in that spirit: an anti-fear kick against the pricks, a pro-creative manifesto.”
Alden Chorush, Ph.D. in English Literature at Concordia University, Montreal
“…for your heart will beat to the pace of your reading. The style and elegance of the gifted writer clashes with the utter honesty and strength of the feelings she describes… without laces yet in splendid words… depict the different facets of love, with several tones of voice, colours, distinct rhythms…an absolute must…”
Review by Alexandra Moulin. Blood is blue. was featured on the Dress to Kill Fashion Mag Reading List, Summer Travel Issue 2018
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WHERE IS ANTON
WHERE IS ANTON by Kiki Dranias / Starring real-life couple Kelly Craig & Anton Koval. Gazette article by Jim Burke, June 2021
WHERE IS ANTON by Kiki Dranias / Top Shows Fringe 2021 by Jim Burke
THE LOVE TRIAL
Purple Divine produces THE LOVE TRIAL by Kiki Dranias
SOME POEMS
by Kiki Dranias on the Feminine Collective platform:
“Have you ever thought about the forbidden fruit on the other side of the fence? Felt judged when falling for the black sheep…All will be explained in Kiki's hum diddly dinger of poem.”
Le Château Magazine, Spring 2020
“Le Château is elated to be extending its branches vicariously through graceful Greek playwright and poet Kiki Dranias. 'choices in the time of corona' draws comparison between our current conundrum and the struggles of historical and cinematic figures.”
Le Château Magazine, Spring 2020