OVERALL PRESS RESPONSE:

FOUR STARS (out of four) – Toronto Star
FIVE STARS (out of five) - Toronto Sun
"BRILLIANT" – The Globe & Mail, Canada
"STUNNING" – The Huffington Post, USA

"The hands down show stopper of Luminato... smart, irreverent, challenging and brilliantly directed and acted" – The Huffington Post

"I was emotionally ransacked and enchanted... This play should travel far and wide" – Avril Benoit, Médecins Sans Frontières, Canada

"Bold and insightful theatre" – Toronto Star

"Ross Manson's Toronto-based Volcano is one of those companies that every great theatre city needs — bold, experimental and bubbling with ideas." – Toronto Star

"Great work throughout from the creative team responsible for sets, costumes, lighting, sound and video. Production values for all three plays are top-notch." – Toronto Star

"Beautifully designed" – Toronto Sun

"Breath-taking in performance, structure and style" – eye weekly

"Stunning" – The Huffington Post

 

PEGGY PICKIT SEES THE FACE OF GOD

"Director Liesl Tommy gets incredible performances out of her cast, as her production masterfully lurches back and forth between hilarity and dread. The staging is full of brilliant touches." - Globe & Mail

"Cleverly written and cleverly directed... beautifully cast... powerful" – Toronto Star

"A superbly rigorous production" – The National Post

"Resonates long after the curtain call" – The Torontoist

"Amazing" – eye weekly

"Director Liesl Tommy's work with the four actors is razor sharp; the looping of word, physicality and emotion is a show in itself." – NOW Magazine

"Life is tragedy seen in close-up, comedy in the long shot, Charlie Chaplin said; Peggy Pickit allows us to see both at once." – Globe and Mail

 

SHINE YOUR EYE

"The product of completely outside-the-box thinking" - Globe & Mail

"Tight, well-written and poetic, it is a play filled with heart" – Toronto Star

"Manson wonderfully integrates video, movement and hip-hop in an eye-opening tale about how the modern world has impacted Africa." – eye weekly

"A fine cast led by the luminous, vulnerable Dienye Waboso as Beka and with excellent work from Karen Robinson, Lucky Onyekachi Ejim and a delightful Muoi Nene." – Toronto Star

"Strong direction... muscular, musical staging" - Toronto Sun

"Binyavanga Wainaina's lyrical script moves forward with gusto, and is forcefully acted by its ensemble cast" - The Torontoist

"Wainaina is one of those rare playwrights who can give the colloquial language the sound of poetry." – eye weekly