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


"Madeline Bernhard refuses to reduce Marie to either saint or seductress, locating instead a young woman trapped between maternal devotion, erotic longing, and crushing economic reality. Her chemistry with Taylor Petracek's swaggering Drum Major crackles with dangerous inevitability."
HI! DRAMA


"As Marie, Madeline Bernhard gives an engrossing depiction of the inner life of a woman dealing with complicated feelings of detachment and longing." FRONT MEZZ JUNKIES


"Across the board, the acting is rigorous yet in-your-face...This Woyzeck is unlike anything that’s playing in New York at the moment." INTERLUDES