The Children
Pillsbury House Theatre
Twin Cities Pioneer Press- Recommended
"...There’s confusion at times but the pieces do come together in a satisfying way. I think that’s because, for all of “The Children’s” crazy and often funny complexities, what it’s really doing is quite simple: It is giving forgotten people a chance to tell their story."
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Chris Hewitt
How Was The Show- Somewhat Recommended
"...In The Children a sister and brother, played at times as puppets, are nearly drowned by their vengeful mother. This could work, but this play is neither fish nor fowl, neither comic send-up nor serious drama, though it tries hard to be both by turns. It’s a mash-up of styles from campy toga-wearing histrionics and weepy sentimentality and sententious speechifying. For it to work room must be made for magic and mystery to develop. The playwright needs to trust the audience enough to allow them to reach their own conclusions. This is what is lacking in The Children."
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Mari Wittenbreer
Talkin Broadway- Somewhat Recommended
"...The Children is gripping throughout, strikingly staged, soulfully acted, and replete with compelling language. In spite of this, at many points in its 85 minutes (without intermission) it is hard to track the leaps between the fish out of water story of the distraught Greek women, the plight of Medea's traumatized children, the contemporary story, and the Sheriff's role in bridging these. The play also makes large swerves in tone. At the start, the histrionics of both Woman of Corinth and the Nurse-Maid strike the audience as parody, prompting hearty audience laughter. As the play progresses, it becomes increasingly sober. Happily, by its end the pieces do come together in a satisfying way that generates its own logic regarding hope, love, responsibility and survival."
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Arthur Dorman
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