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| "Strawberry Theatre Workshop is consistently, stubbornly impressive... [Gabriel] Baron is fantastic, both nervous and defiant as little-guy inventor Charles Lang. There are also great performances by Kate Czajkowski (as Lang's blind sister) and Michael Patton and George Mount as wicked lawyers. The play gets increasingly ominous, becoming a full-bore thriller. The denouement, causally revealed by a journalist flirting over the telephone, made me want to die." ––Brendan Kiley 3/27/2007 |
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| "Strawberry Theatre Workshop's Water Engine production is elegantly wrought. Set, sound, light and costumes create a tough and shabby world. Director MJ Sieber's actors, most of them playing multiple roles, highlight their portrayals with glints of humor. Dark proceedings are lightened by sparks of satire." ––Joe Adcock 4/2/2007 |
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| "Directed by MJ Sieber, eight actors in the show handle multiple roles. They also concoct all the live radio sound effects (doors creaking open, phones ringing, etc.), and pitch in on folksy musical numbers and mock public-service announcements. As with many theatricalized old-time radio dramas, watching the teamwork and timing that defines the medium is fun." ––Misha Berson 3/30/2007 |
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| "Fringe should be different, and Strawberry Theatre Workshop delivers that in their production of David Mamet's The Water Engine. While the program includes a long essay from Mamet about how wonderful radio theater is—as if we're about to watch a meticulous re-creation of a 1930s radio script—this production is in no way "authentic." Director M.J. Sieber dispenses with the usual handheld scripts and onstage sound-effects artist. Most scenes are downstage, with place and props mimed, and the sound effects democratically handed out among the actors not in the scene. What's created is a huge choral trust exercise, as the actors carefully watch each other to coordinate the sound to the motion." ––John Longenbaugh 4/11/2007 |
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