Okra

Sultry, Sensual 'Okra' - Rob Hurwitt, SF Chronicle Tuesday, February 24, 2004
"If you kill me that rooster, I promise I will make you a gumbo," the young woman tells her neighbor, and the theater is suffused with languorous eroticism crackling with wistfully comic sexual electricity…No one excels Galjour at embodying the sensual delights of Cajun food, or at evoking the sights, smells and feel of the Louisiana bayous through the magic of spoken word imagery..."

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'Okra' dishes up a Cajun feast of comedic characters - Pat Craig, Contra Costa Times, Monday, Februrary 23, 2004.
"Facing an audience that included much of the Bay Area's theatrical firepower, Anne Galjour slugged a towering home run with the world premiere of her first multi-character play, "Okra." The sly, dark comedy, tucked into a Cajun corner near New Orleans, is another Galjour visit to her Louisiana roots. What she delivers in this hilarious powerhouse of a play is an unflinching look at families in trouble that stretches well beyond the bayou."

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Okra's Audience Sits Up and Smells the Gumbo - Bill Daley, SF Chronicle Food Section
"Steamy nights ... food from heaven ... mother from Hell!'' is the catchy tag line for Anne Galjour's newest play, "Okra." While words like these may help draw an audience, you can bet it's the deliciously nutty smell of flour frying in oil that helps keep them in their seats at San Francisco's Brava Theater Center."

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Sacred and Profane - Robert Avila, SF Bay Guardian
"...The Southern legacy is a complicated affair, indeed a family affair, and not only in Galjour's darkly funny and heartfelt comedy either. Her clever refusal to give in to a neat resolution says as much. Families, like the legacy of race in America, tend to resist happy endings, even in comedies. Then again, it's in comedy that we can best shoulder the burden of struggling on without them."

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Galjour spices up funny `Okra' with warm, complex characters Three [1/2] stars - Spicy comedy - Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune Friday, February 27, 2004.
"With last weekend's world premiere of "Okra" at the Brava Theatre Center in San Francisco, Galjour takes an enormous artistic step. The writer/performer of "Alligator Tales," a solo show about Cajun culture in the Louisiana bayous, has written a play with five characters, none of whom are played by the author. Though she's not on stage, Galjour can be felt throughout the play's utterly delightful two hours."

"OKRA" - Charles Brousse, Marin Independent Journal, Saturday, February 28, 2004.
"There were, in fact, cheers aplenty on opening night when the lights faded on the final scene of "Okra," Anne Galjour's tangy portrait of family life in Cajun country. Currently being given its world premiere by the feminist-oriented performance group, Brava! for Women in the Arts, the play runs through March 14 in their comfortable venue on San Francisco's restaurant-rich 24th Street…"Okra" is a promising debut for Galjour and a considerable achievement for Brava."