press

"The beginning of Seth Bockley’s staging sets the tone, with Marie (Madeline Bernhard) on her back, giving birth to an accordion. It’s a simple but very effective idea, and the show is full of those." THE NEW YORK TIMES


"This kind of production is exactly why we live here." THE NEW YORK TIMES


"Even in the sweltering heat, the performances are nothing less than committed. Bernhard captures Marie’s hunger, as well as her growing sense of hopelessness." THEATERMANIA


"WOYZECK, in short, is about a poor soldier (Ryan Czerwonko)—forced to subsist on peas as the subject of cruel experiments—who kills his mistress, Marie (Madeline Bernhard) after a stretch of jealous contemplation. Czerwonko and Bernhard are precise, striking, and perfectly neurotic in their performances. Had they just been a touch more or less unhinged, it would have been an entirely different, and probably worse, play. In the sway between weird and eerie, Adult Film’s WOYZECK toggles both." MELODRAMA


"[The Idiot] is treated as a kind of Christ figure in one scene by Marie, whose warring frustration, desire, and guilt Bernhard charts in an outstanding turn." THINKING THEATER NYC