posted:May 3, 2012
FLAVORPILL EDITOR’S PICK
“Thoughtful and funny…Nothing has quite captured the decade’s embrace of death and darkness like Sophie Gets the Horns…Alice’s final anthropology project is an explosive climax to this feminist fever dream.”
Photo by Zack Lane
posted:May 15, 2012
NEW YORK MAGAZINE REVIEW
“It’s a great piece of black box theater…Anyone who went to college in the pre-9/11 era will appreciate Riot’s delicately self-mocking approach to that twilight of the old era, back when collegiate alienation wasn’t something you posted on your Facebook page…a pop version of the Theater of Cruelty.”
photo by Zack Lane
posted:May 12, 2012
BACKSTAGE CRITIC’S PICK
“Absurdly superb…alluring and intense…a supple memory play…Kristen Bailey renders the inner clash between Sophie’s innocence and her attempts to exorcise it with a churning accuracy.”
Photo by Zack Lane
posted:May 11, 2012
TIME OUT REVIEW
“Delicately hilarious…a clear-eyed ethnography of our own species at a specific developmental stage…the ensemble seems exquisitely tuned to a difficult chord of poignancy and awkwardness.”
Photo by Zack Lane
posted:May 11, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW
“Director Rebecca Wright teases out precise, lived-in performances that for the most part maintain a naturalism while fitting into a stylized and fluid production…The drama works here because of the specific and intelligent performances by the committed actresses.”
photo by Zack Lane
posted:May 10, 2012
VILLAGE VOICE REVIEW
“Unassailable proof that the Riot Group deserve a wider audience…Mary Tuomanen captures the stage physically, her gymnastics conveying a haunting sense of unpronounceable frustration and loss.”
Photo by Zack Lane
posted:May 9, 2012
