Written by Virginia Woolf
Directed by Anne Bogart
Synopsis: In Freshwater, Virginia Woolf creates a deliberately witty and wacky universe peopled with a tribe of artists, friends and lovers in a playful mood. Legendary director Anne Bogart is at the helm of this theatrical escapade set in a Victorian garden on a summer evening, and a perfect diversion for audiences during the winter 2009.
NEW YORK TIMES:
"Less would really be more here, although the play’s running time is just over an hour. The actors deliver Woolf’s airy whimsies as if they are performing in a particularly highbrow episode of “The Carol Burnett Show,” gesticulating wildly to emphasize the absurdities, mugging at will to convince us all how madcap and delightful it is. "
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THEATERMANIA:
"In the end, a production that honored Woolf's actual comedic accomplishment without burying it in over-the-top clowning would make for a more appropriate -- not to mention more enjoyable -- homage than this one. "
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VARIETY:
"What the helmer has done, though, is direct our focus to Terry, whose intelligence and impatience come through nicely in Kelly Maurer's clean, unaffected perf. With all around her acting like asses, this clever young thing sizes up the situation and walks out on her stodgy old husband, his boring friends and all their fusty, suffocating notions of art and life. No doubt Woolf and her lively set felt exactly the same way. "
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BACKSTAGE:
"I could recall other such highlights, but what's most impressive about the evening — as with the best of SITI's work — is the way the company functions in sync, not in synchronicity, with members reacting to one another and their environment, here a ménage of Victorian parlor, lush garden, and rippling water... "
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TIME OUT NY:
"On the page, the satire is brittle and gossamer-slight, if inarguably fascinating as a glimpse of the novelist’s lighter side; onstage, in its U.S. premiere, director Anne Bogart and her tireless, tight-knit ensemble have turned it into an effortful, galumphing goof. "
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