"Akedah is a strange play, intense and subdued at the same time. The themes and concepts going on behind the scenes are fascinating, and writer Michael John O'Neill clearly has some smart ideas, but the play in its current form feels a little too joyless."
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“This 90-minute piece, billed as O’Neill’s first full-length work, has already done its work for him...It might have been wiser to leave it in the thicket of new writer awards than to lead it out to the altar.”
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“It’s a serious piece of work, or an attempt at one. Without more forward motion, though, all these issues felt like a punishment to sit through.”
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“Director Lucy Morrison gives O’Neill’s dense text plenty of space to breathe, letting each new revelation sink in as her performers circle one another. The energy sometimes dips, deadening the otherwise escalating tension. “
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“This is an important subject and O'Neill creates real empathy for these poor lambs, though there's a slight lack of meat on the bones of this play.”
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“The women’s stories are sad, almost tragic, but ultimately they don’t prompt tears so much as a scratch of the head.”
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“A potentially divisive play – some may find the subject matter abrasive, and others will likely find that the overwhelming sorrow of the work makes it a difficult watch...this production more than does justice to O’Neil’s stunning, incredibly promising debut.”
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