The Boston Globe

"I was left...reminded how much power there can be when one human voice, unstilled, speaks the truth to one listener.”

Patriot Ledger

“Gardens Speaks allows people to care deeply about the life and death of a single ordinary person."

"Unusual and moving."

Edge Media Network

“ArtsEmerson is giving Boston one of the most uniquely individual and profound theatrical experiences in recent memory with Tania El Khoury's haunting Gardens Speak.”

The New York Times

“A stark, moving theater piece by Tania El Khoury, brings us into painful intimacy with the human cost of the war.”

★★★★ What’s on Stage

“This piece will change the way you think”

★★★★ Evening Standard

“Eerily absorbing”

Paul Mason, Channel 4

“Art is supposed to be universal – and there is no more universal thing than fear of death. Or grief. In Gardens Speak, out of the most specific experience, Tania El Khoury crafts something massive.”