"We all wrestle with life. Thomas Merton left behind a lively example of how to succeed at it. In a time of mindless entertainment and distraction, this play offered me insights -- into myself."
-Jon Anderson, Chicago Tribune
"The Hermit in New York is a beautifully conceived and acted drama. Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, was a uniquely gifted writer and activist whose life itself was a kind of poem in its honest, often conflicting engagements with the spiritual and material worlds. Seeing this moving play, one has the rare and brightening sense of wisdom not abstracted, but rather embodied and enacted."
-Stephen Young
Program Director
The Poetry Foundation
"The play's artful distillation - and sometimes surprising juxtapositions - of passages from Thomas Merton's works, delighted the Merton readers among us and suggested fresh connections between his manifold activities and concerns. Even those who know little of Merton or monasticism could begin to understand, through the portrayal of dialogues with historical characters in Merton's own life, how the very passion that inspires renunciation of the world can also draw us into an ever-deepening encounter with it."
-Homer White
University of Kentucky
Newman Center
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