This incredible story performed by Faith Collins follows a family of five women navigating the intricacies of life and their exploration of identity. As they sort through difficult relationships, some push through to the other side while others take longer to cross that road. It’s a heartwarming story of successes and failures. It leaves you with a sense of connection to these women as they relate to the universal themes of today. This beautiful piece of work is the 2018 winner of the NAACP Theatre Award for Best One Person Show and also the previous winner of the 2014 United Solo Festival winner for Best Dramatic Script.

For a one-woman performance, Women on the Verge owes a great deal to a cooperative effort, and it is to the credit of all concerned that Faith Collins’s time on stage is nothing less than captivating. That she performs a genuinely stunning piece of writing by Kimba Henderson is no small matter. That the direction of Keith Johnson is mostly spot-on and in place only to serve character is as well an essential piece of the whole.  At the same time, Collins is the sun around which these bodies orbit, and both contributions would be as naught without this woman’s remarkable ability to take on six personas and deliver each one as though it were her core being. This is absolutely exquisite acting, people, happily grounded in a witty, insightful, and often deeply poignant script. The five women and one young girl portrayed are all relations, and the last segment is in fact an adult return to Vanessa, the child opening the evening. With real authenticity, Collins first brings to life this little girl, frantically eager and simultaneously in terror (for good reason). This achievement is then eclipsed by her portrayal of a young woman in the subway, a brilliant evocation of a woman’s pain reg …Read more