Reviews
“…hilarious and brilliant…Chekhov
Lizardbrain is an astounding piece of theatre.”
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.”
“It's
everything that great avant-garde theater should be … I don't say this often,
but you really must see it right away.”
“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.
“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”