"I can say that it doesn’t make a winning argument: The two characterizations nullify each other, leaving the audience to shrug. The promised debate isn’t even a draw; it’s a forfeit"
Read more

"Under Taymor’s guidance, the cast is terrific and so tightly in sync they recall a boy band."
Read more

"At its best, 'Lowcountry' is a grimy and charged encounter between two lonely people over the course of a muggy evening"
Read more

"Cleverly conceived—and often sharply funny—'Trophy Boys' nevertheless often feels like a debate itself"
Read more

"Mattana’s script is subtler, simultaneously broader in its critique of power and more surgical in its dissection of its present trappings."
Read more

"Mattana...has a wicked eye for her characters' increasingly elastic attitudes as they try to bluff their way out of an impossible situation, their self-images intact."
Read more

"'Trophy Boys' certainly excels in exposing the performative contradictions of male allyship, particularly through the teenage debaters' cynical, absurd improvisations, rife with logical fallacies and desperate deflections and rationalizations"
Read more

Director Danya Taymor's production is an energetic satire responsive to these repressive times.
Read more