Cost of Living

'A richly empathetic work that asks searching questions about who or what defines us, and what we owe to each other. Frank, funny and thrumming with feeling, in its best moments it bypasses the head and strikes right at the heart'

* Broadway World *

'A rare combination of matter-of-fact candour and watchful empathetic insight'

* Independent *

'Dares to venture to places few dramas go, examining with a kind of wide-eyed truthfulness the lives of a marginalised quartet struggling to get by... Majok's writing has a poetic naturalism'

* WhatsOnStage *

'A tough drama that earns its poignancy... gets under your skin through its ability to provoke feeling without lapsing into sentimentality'

* Guardian *

'Cost of Living is perfection. It reawakens my belief in the poetry of theater and highlights its purpose as the critical eye on our human existence… Majok brilliantly infuses her characters and dialogue with biting humor'

* New York Theatre Guide *

'Full of effective moments… deeply felt'

* Village Voice *

'Sensational... poses colossal questions in scenes so bracingly intimate that you might be tempted to look away were they not so utterly magnetic... manages to capture, in the span of 100 minutes, how it feels to be alive... the kind of theater that imprints on the body and lives in your bones... one of the most poignant and arresting new dramas on Broadway in recent memory'

* Variety *

'Immensely haunting… Majok has engineered her plot to lead naturally to moments of intense and complicated pungency… If you don't find yourself in someone in Cost of Living, you’re not looking'

* New York Times *

'Deeply moving, bracing and harrowing'

* The Hollywood Report