The Honeycomb Trilogy NYC Reviews and Tickets

"While keeping the action in one room, the play impressively trims exposition to a minimum, but inevitably the dialogue becomes clunky. And while you can follow the play if you missed the first installment, the ending seems more like a set-up for Part 3 than like a conclusion. Still, two hours zip by. It’s a credit to the propulsive plotting that amid debates about dissent, love and honesty, the question 'Blast Radius' most frequently prompts is simply: What happens next?"
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"Director Jordana Williams occasionally lets a bit of goofiness slip through, particularly in the second tier of performances—which falls off pretty seriously from the first. But it's the first tier that matters. In Cheek's long series of downtown triumphs, she has always seemed like an acting thoroughbred: compact, explosive, with a slightly wicked eye. Even so, I can not remember ever seeing her in such full, exultant stride."
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"The play is fascinating, suspenseful, and gripping, and will be of especial interest to fans of the science fiction genre...This is truly an excellent play-Mac Rogers is one of the most intriguing playwrights working today...I am highly anticipating the next two installments of 'The Honeycomb Trilogy.'"
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"Mac Rogers delivers an alternately thrilling, chilling, and emotionally moving piece of theatre. You don’t need to have seen the previous play to enjoy this one (though admittedly, it helps). If you like theatre, and especially if you like science fiction, and especially especially if you like both, GO GO GO. You won’t want to be out of the loop for part III."
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"Though it helps to have seen the trilogy in its entirety to get the full effect, this piece stands on its own. This is science fiction, but first and foremost, it’s effective drama. And as with all the best science fiction, it asks us questions about what it truly means to be human or a monster. I feel honored to have borne witness to this magnificent series in its entirety. Go."
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:The plot of 'Blast Radius' is compelling and absorbing. Rogers manages to tell a fascinating story; introduce a range of vividly etched characters; provoke thoughts about humanity, bravery, identity, values, relationships, and procreation; elicit some tears; and be quite funny. It's an impressive feat...The show isn't perfect...But, really, who cares? 'Blast Radius' is an impressive and passionately entertaining evening in the theatre. That's what matters."
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"It's always nice to see sci-fi wrested from movies and TV and brought back to the stage. This is especially true when it is in the hands of talented artists like Mac Rogers and director Jordana Williams. By relying on the storytelling and the acting, they don't need to force in a lot of special effects, taking the risk that those effects won't work or will seem shoddy to the audience. When it comes to stoking the audience's imagination, less is often more. Rogers and Williams hit that balance nicely."
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"Audiences looking for conventional domestic dramas and generic white-yuppie comedies will recoil from this show's imaginative genre elements. But because it is good sci-fi, it's good theater. Rogers and company have hit upon a way of making the usually spectacle-driven genre work excellently onstage. They don't skimp on plot twists and pulp sensation but they bring to the absurd stakes a sense of realism and humanity."
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