EXCERPTS OF REVIEWS

Two Birds & A Stone by Amy Wheeler, Capitol Hill Arts Center, Seattle

"Director Christine Young has turned the script into a well-choreographed spectacle, disorientingly staged to great effect."

-- Brendan Kiley, (Theatre Critic, The Stranger)

"Director Christine Young perfectly complements the text with her fluid direction, capturing the dreamlike quality of the piece as well as the danger and harshness of Wheeler’s world…Young uses the space to its full advantage, as the actors climb, dance, and push their way through the various locals of the piece… Director and playwright often overlap, creating a fully cohesive and collaborative product that is satisfying and breathtaking."

-- Robbie Wachs (Reviewer, TheatreSeattle.com)

"Director Christine Young has staged the show in an imaginative fashion, with the action unfolding on a conventional stage at one end of the room, a smaller stage at the other, balconies, and the room's center space. Having the seats spread around the room--meaning the cast literally runs through the audience while entering and exiting--also helps draw you in to the action; the mayhem isn't something you simply observe, it's exploding all around you."

- Gillian G. Gaar (Theatre Critic, Seattle Weekly)

A-A-America - Produced by Crowded Fire (San Francisco)

"'If there's gonna be a lynchin', you'll sit more comfortable if you know exactly what seat history's sat you in.' But nothing prepares us for the subtle relationships and ironies that lace the journey. The limber work of director Christine Young and her fine cast make these details instantly familiar and authentic."

- Robert Avila (San Francisco Bay Guardian)

"Bond develops the story with understated edginess, touches of provocative ambiguity and some eye-opening twists. Young's direct, even staging fits the approach well."

- Robert Hurwitt (San Francisco Chronicle)

EO 9066 - Produced by Lunatique Fantastique (San Francisco)

"To fully appreciate what Wetzel, co-director and writer Christine Young and the troupe do, consider this: They make us care about teacups and teapots… the show explodes with sorrow and strength."

- Chad Jones (Oakland Tribune)

"Executive Order 9066 isn't so much a political pamphlet in dramatic form as it is a spiraling meditation on the pointless loss of innocent lives at a time of national pressure, the production is deeply haunting."

- Chloe Veltman (SF Weekly)

"As story-telling, as performance and as a chronicle of human endurance while lost in upheaval, Lunatique Fantastique’s EO 9066 is remarkable and unique."

- Ken Bullock (Berkeley Daily Planet)