Great to wake up to two lovely reviews! Couldn't be more proud of this one.
Willamette Week: "When a playwright and a theater click, you can feel it. David Zellnik and Defunkt met in 2014 with Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, exploring the AIDS era, disability and Marxism together in a sweet and comedic way. The romance continues with Defunkt's world premiere of The Udmurts... It's hard to resist enjoying the lazy seduction of a shining, virginal gay boy by a smooth-talking, trust-fund dude and his fierce, thieving girlfriend. They pass a joint around the pullout couch bed with rainbow afghan in the apartment filled with eclectic treasures, or junk, depending on your eye for Max Ward's set design. Then the seduction turns sinister, to edgeplay with sexual violence and straight-up scams. This play elegantly shifts between vulnerability, violence, arousal and betrayal, raising the question "Who can be trusted?" - Jess Drake
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Oregon Artswatch:
"...The end of the world is coming, and we are privy to it by pictures of ragged-boned and starving Polar bears on ice drifts, heat waves that creep in before the Spring equinox, and the mountains of paper-printed conclusions that say we’ve gone too far too be comfortable with the near future. Will we struggle and fight to survive, or dance in ecstasy during the last moments of humankind? The Udmurts, directed by Andrew Klaus-Vineyard, raises the question, can we do both?"- Christa Morletti McIntyre
Willamette Week: "When a playwright and a theater click, you can feel it. David Zellnik and Defunkt met in 2014 with Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, exploring the AIDS era, disability and Marxism together in a sweet and comedic way. The romance continues with Defunkt's world premiere of The Udmurts... It's hard to resist enjoying the lazy seduction of a shining, virginal gay boy by a smooth-talking, trust-fund dude and his fierce, thieving girlfriend. They pass a joint around the pullout couch bed with rainbow afghan in the apartment filled with eclectic treasures, or junk, depending on your eye for Max Ward's set design. Then the seduction turns sinister, to edgeplay with sexual violence and straight-up scams. This play elegantly shifts between vulnerability, violence, arousal and betrayal, raising the question "Who can be trusted?" - Jess Drake
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Oregon Artswatch:
"...The end of the world is coming, and we are privy to it by pictures of ragged-boned and starving Polar bears on ice drifts, heat waves that creep in before the Spring equinox, and the mountains of paper-printed conclusions that say we’ve gone too far too be comfortable with the near future. Will we struggle and fight to survive, or dance in ecstasy during the last moments of humankind? The Udmurts, directed by Andrew Klaus-Vineyard, raises the question, can we do both?"- Christa Morletti McIntyre
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