"Some playwrights have a gift to amuse; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has a darker gift. Anyone with romantic notions of Chinese culture will be unsettled by the jagged, unsentimental portrait of modern urban China." –Chicago Reader
""Fearless, zippily-paced, and satirical, shining a light on Chinese society's necessary doublethink, be that willful blindness to the political past, or an equally blind belief in an impossibly brilliant future." –
Independent (on The King of Hell's Palace) "An expansive, ambitious play about trauma and passion" –
The Stage (on Snow in Midsummer) "Cowhig speaks bitterness and makes us sit up and listen" –
Lyn Gardner The Guardian (on The World of Extreme Happiness)