Star Tribune - Highly Recommended

"...Director Matt Sciple ramps up the tension in his spellbinding production. He builds to each surprise in this taut, compelling staging that really grabbed me in the intimate St. Paul playhouse. Tufford's Carmichael is an obsessive man of mystery. We still don't know all that much about him at play's end, but we're drawn to his dark quirkiness. Marsh and Evans credibly sell their characters, whose relationship gets tested by their different intelligence levels. The two, who are prone to going off on tangents, deliver like squirrels in a bag."
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Twin Cities Pioneer Press - Somewhat Recommended

"...Director Matt Sciple gets the broad contours of atmospherics right -- a faint, almost otherworldly sense of menace overhangs the proceedings -- but his cast is uneven in its efforts. As Mervyn, the hotel clerk, Luverne Seifert wears a crooked grin and a not-quite-all-there glint in his eyes. He's affable and creepy, meek and mildly threatening, all at the same time. Sara Marsh is effective as the street-smart Marilyn who exercises all the tricks necessary to get what she wants out of the various males on stage, from coy flirtation to steely-eyed witchiness."
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How Was The Show - Recommended

"...A Behanding In Spokane may be imperfect, but it will get you laughing and stomping your feet (be careful of the fragile Gremlin seating). Carmichael, an utterly insane mama's boy, obsesses on an image: hillbillies, having held his arm down on the train tracks, allowing the 2:19 to sever his hand, use the now-detached appendage to wave bye-bye. 27 years later Carmichael is still searching for the hand (and, secondarily, for the hillbillies). Why? Your guess is as good as mine, but when feckless pot-dealers Marilyn and Toby try to fob off a hand nicked from the local natural history museum (looking for the $500 reward), Carmichael cuffs them to the radiator and covers them with gasoline. Then he lights a candle and disappears. Mervyn, the sly, compellingly repellent hotel clerk, oozes into the room. Hilarious."
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