The Creeps NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (144)
See it if Do you want to spend one of the most unique names in the theater this Fall.
Don't see it if You want to see a big musical.
See it if you like interactive theater which actively challenges you to examine your inner responses to discomfort.
Don't see it if you have difficulty having an actor’s attention focused on you for even a moment; you want your theater to be happily ever after. Read more
See it if U like fringe shows that're experimental & take audiences somewhere unexpected. It is proportionally better by audience participation!
Don't see it if If you're against an interactive show that relies on its audience to be involved, comment or even question/converse with the solo performer. Read more
See it if You enjoy inventive and mysterious theatre. You just don’t know what is coming next. Interactive, creepy and interestingly new.
Don't see it if It IS creepy and unusual. It might make some uncomfortable. You meet some characters and wonder, in the end, why.
See it if You enjoy a nonlinear performance with audience participation. You like dark comedy.
Don't see it if Are interested in a lively feel good show. This is not it. Very dark
See it if you love dark, one-person character pieces that engage directly with the audience.
Don't see it if you are looking for a high concept play or do not like being a part of the show.
See it if aficionado of Fringe type engagement, 4 physical & improv skills of Catherine Waller, 4 never experience this again in the theater night out
Don't see it if hate one person shows, audience participation or haze, need clearly defined story line & character studies, don't want to give up jewelry
See it if One person show that take you along if you want to, some strange characters you will meet and if you want to interaction you can.
Don't see it if interaction bother you but you can go and not interaction. Subject are dark. Read more
Critic Reviews (6)
“I’m generally a hearty non-fan of immersive, or, as it is advertised here, ‘interactive’ theater—but Ms. Waller, while remaining in character(s), brings an easy naturalness to the manner in which she welcomes the audience into the show, so that the rapport between these weird dramatis personae and those who voluntarily exchange words with them feels unintimidating and even, at times, affecting.”
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“ ‘The Creeps’ offers an impressive showcase for Waller’s own chameleonic gifts as an actress, her physical prowess, and her ability to improvise in character. Certainly, even if I remain unsure of just how much I actually liked it, I left the theater knowing I had seen something — or at the very least, someone — distinctive.”
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Although Waller’s physicality is impressive, the characters seem to be living in a vacuum. We have too many unanswered questions about the freak show we appear to be attending. Neither Monnin’s lighting nor the sound design by Hidenori Nakajo are particularly effective or creepy. The scariest moment is entering the theater where the lighting turns everything black, white and grey, bleaching out all colors, but we quickly get used to this strange state of affairs.
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“...’The Creeps’ seems to be hinging on Waller’s and the characters’ engagement with the audience to bring resonance to the proceedings.”
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Charismatic New Zealand-born performer Catherine Waller is bewitching in her hour-long highly theatrical solo show which is comprised of dark vignettes. Ultimately, The Creeps’ overly cryptic sketches and variable audience participation sequences do not cohere into a fully satisfying theatrical experience and isn’t really shocking as it has been promoted. Still, The Creeps could be enjoyed as a spirited Halloween-time diversion and as an opportunity to encounter Catherine Waller’s immense stage talents.
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“Getting into too much detail would spoil the frisson of uncertainty and sense of surprise that ‘The Creeps’ maintains from its first moments until its closing fade to darkness. To discuss those details is, anyway, no substitute for the galvanic company of the Creeps themselves.”
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