_Esdras: Perished, Erred and Sinned_Director and Playwright
The play — an audacious mixture between staging and text — relies heavily on the use of language to convey atmosphere. The intent listener will definitely be rewarded by the variety of styles [...] The audience will find themselves waiting for yet another story by the time the play ends. [...] “Esdras” is certainly something worth seeing. ~The Yale Daily News _Lips Together, Teeth Apart_Director
Such is the arena (part love nest, part wrestling ring) for this production’s exhilarating quartet of actors. [...] This production lets us know that there is something more universal in the way four bodies touch each other, if only back to back ~The Yale Daily News _The Illusion
_Director
The production, directed by Oren Stevens ’11, excels in its emotive use of light and color. [...] A model of what experimental theater should be. ~The Yale Daily News |
_'Tis Pity She's a Whore
_Playwright
In addition to a sensitive reworking of the story, Stevens displays a wonderful ear for language. His adaptation managed to make the play sound [...] like the very best modern productions of Shakespeare. ~ ART Hound _Phantomwise_Playwright
Phantomwise, [...] understands the art of storytelling and delivers a clever, probing, comic and endlessly entertaining dreamlike work. ~ Midnight at Yale The way Alice’s story is re-imagined is haunting and creative. ~ The Yale Daily News The enchanting Phantomwise layers events from Liddell’s life in Victorian England with bits from Carroll’s famous novels, [...]. It’s a fascinating juxtaposition that makes for fascinating theater. [...] Phantomwise is storytelling — and theater — at its most pure. ~ www.nytheatre.com Playwright Oren Stevens seamlessly blends events from the girlhood of Alice Liddell—the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s books about Alice in Wonderland—with language, characters, and adventures from the fantastical stories. ~ Backstage |
