MAD FOREST
This is Theater in 2020. Will it Last? Should it? NYTimes, July 8, 2020.
I’m going to be a bit contrary here and say that I’m not a huge Richard Nelson fan, so I have less interest in Zoom works that present the regular family play. In our current context, with protests happening, there is more radical content theater can consider instead of just productions about white families. In terms of successful Zoom plays that have delivered alternatives, we’ve seen “Mad Forest”
-Maya Phillips
I was very impressed by the Bard College student production of Caryl Churchill’s “Mad Forest,” a portrait of the events surrounding the end of the Ceausescu dictatorship, in the way it used the image of a fragmented population — embodied with aching intensity by its young cast in their separate frames — in a time when a society was collapsing.
-Ben Brantley
“fervently inventive... deeply moving... emotionally direct and lucid.” - Ben Brantley, in the NYTimes review