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More raves for Colorado!
posted by Cheshire on Thu, Sep 28, 2006
in Reviews
Colorado continues to rack up the compliments! UC Berkeley's Daily Cal can't say enough nice things -- here are just a few: "Colorado is a must-see...deliciously deranged...wickedly funny...a smart, beautifully written piece of theatre." Read the whole thing.
The Oakland Tribune says, "We expect certain things from Colorado: big laughs, twisted subject matter and a provocative surprise or two. Nachtrieb is a skillful writer, and the new play delivers on all counts..."
The Trib also ran a teen perspective on the play (Leslie Ribovich, the teen reviewer, is going to shows along with the paper's main theatre critic, Chad Jones). Leslie crows about the show's "raw, hilarious family drama," and she was wowed overall: "I'd never seen a show at Impact and am really impressed with the quality of the production. Impact creates a whole theatrical experience."
Sam Hurwitt of the East Bay Express filed a capsule review this week. Here's our favorite excerpt: "...the dialogue contains enough belly laughs to carry the show, and newcomer Elkhanah Pulitzer's production delivers them handily. Adrienne Papp is a knockout as the MIA terror in a tiara, all sugar and spite and vicious superficiality, and Klahr Thorsen shows where the venom comes from as the brittle, sympathy-pie-hoarding mother. Joshua Huston is funny and endearing as introverted brother Travis..."