Reviews
One of the top 10 theatre events in New York in 2008
“Peculiar, hypnotic
and unexpectedly moving… [a]
wonderful production … [that] glimmers with a quirky fascination.”
“The
performance juggles ideas about Chekhov, about playmaking, about what the
theater's for, mixing them with bigger matters: love, honesty, friendship, and
justice; our relation to nature, to each other, ultimately to ourselves.
Nothing's insisted on and little is stated overtly; the show's almost
aggressively un-didactic. As with Chekhov, the things we understand from it
hang in the atmosphere, articulated but unspoken, engulfing the characters.
“…hilarious and brilliant…Chekhov
Lizardbrain is an astounding piece of theatre.”
“It's
everything that great avant-garde theater should be … I don't say this often,
but you really must see it right away.”
“One of the few groups successfully taking theatre in new directions”
— The New York Times
(May 2008)
“Prodigious talent and discipline”
— Village Voice
(April 2008)
“A delicious deceit, a musical treatise of disappointments, a self-described cabaret of “rites and wrongs.” And every gloomy thing it purports to be, it isn't”