At a lean ninety minutes long, the play tackles too many big issues to do them justice.
Company One
Theater Review: “Really” — An Absorbing Confrontation With Memory
Company One’s production of this unconventional work is absorbing: this is the kind of exciting theater that we need to see more often.
Theater Review: Missing the Irony in “Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.”
Alice Birch’s play/polemic about radical feminism resists Company One’s earnest-to-the-max interpretation.
Theater Review: “An Octoroon” — Racist Melodrama, Post-Modern Version
Company One’s actors are top notch and they expertly serve the production’s antiquated style of non-realistic acting.
Theater Review: Company One’s “Astro Boy” Rockets into an Eye-Popping Adventure
Company One’s production treats audiences to a seamless, eight-member ensemble who perform with a complicated bevy of multimedia effects that are so smoothly integrated into the action they elicit ooohs and aahs from the crowd.
Theater Review: A First-Rate “Flick” From Company One
In “The Flick,” Annie Baker creates youngish characters that my students at Boston University would call “relatable,” exploring how self-delusions, stereotypes, and fear keep them from connecting in a meaningful way.
Theater Review: “How We Got On” — Exhilarating Hip Hop
I am probably the last person anyone would see as a hip hop fan, but I walked out of the theater with a new appreciation for the music and the satisfaction of experiencing an old-fashioned coming-of-age story told in a refreshing new way.
Theater Review: “She Kills Monsters” — A Delightful Celebration of Geekery
“She Kills Monsters” provides a constant stream of creative, amusing, and outrageous moments.
Theater Review: Company One Exhibits a Ferociously Good “Bengal Tiger”
“Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” is hard to categorize. It is both funny and dead serious, not exactly a black comedy but an idiosyncratic composite of many different dramatic antecedents.
Theater Review: Wrestling With Art
Ultimately the evening is NOT about wrestling. It’s about the root, the very nature of art. About the love of craft; about wanting and needing to create.