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| "The play combines the virtues of a short story by Borges (the relentless cosmic irony, the comprehensive mapping of five lives), an essay by Didion (falling through carefully designed trapdoors from one place to another), and a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman (nothing in Bridge's world is casual; everything is connected). The five victims are portrayed by puppets, and the cast is exceptionally strong, including Hana Lass, Tim Hyland, and the always-commanding Amy Thone as the abbess... Sheila Daniels's direction is commendably unobtrusive. Wilder's story is excellent." ––Brendan Kiley 9/26/2006 |
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| "The Strawberry Theatre Workshop takes a unique approach to playcrafting. The company's work is meditative. Its productions are like rituals. Live actors and intricate puppets join in a form of storytelling that is essentially a ceremony––sometimes mournful, occasionally funny and always attuned to the dignity and worth of human beings." ––Joe Adcock 9/12/2006 |
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| "It makes perfect sense that Strawberry Theatre Workshop is marking the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks with a dramatization of [The Bridge of San Luis Rey]... The theater's impulse—to try to make sense of tragic fate, to distinguish the individual lives lost in a lethal disaster—gives Wilder's novel a sense of timelessness and an applicability far beyond its geographic setting." ––Misha Berson 9/15/2006 |
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