"A vaporous piece that is as much a remembrance of plays past as it is a portrait of time recaptured....Identities blur and time bends, as characters become themselves at different ages, coasting onto lonely tangents...Evans wisely keeps the performances from her five cast members at a meditative simmer that never boils over into declamation and melodrama."
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"The play begins with five actors gathered in a semicircle around a polished wooden dining room table...It feels like a no-nonsense way to lay out the exposition. But then it goes on and on and on like that, with each character narrating his or her story, not necessarily in chronological order and with no regard for emotional build...At its best, 'The Things That Were There' conveys the strange logic that governs memory...Unfortunately, this play suffers from an oversaturation of significance."
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