Chekhov Lizardbrain
“…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.
“We expect (and receive) a beautifully realized but abstract meditation, but also engage a story (challengingly obtuse though it may be) about genuine characters. Or maybe that's not surprising at all. What's most consistently Pig Iron is the imaginary math of unlikely parts adding up to an undefinable yet fascinating whole.”
“A bold new work that shows Philly's most adventurous company has lost none of its zeal for theatrical exploration.”
“Watching Pig Iron Theatre Company's latest marvel, a scientific, cerebral, silly assault on traditional theatre is much like waking up displaced outside a fin de siecle dream.”