Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.

Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“…ferocious energy courses through this short, sharp shock of a production…With a cast that revels in acting up and acting out, Ms. Birch’s work finds the theatrical exhilaration in civil disobedience.“

Katy Waldman, Slate

“a puckish, yet deadly serious meditation on how language molds our experience of sex and gender, a scalding cascade of interconnected vignettes exploring words and their limits.”

The New Yorker

“The cast is excellent, particularly the great Jennifer Ikeda, who knows that the piece is as much about words as about trying to express oneself through limited means.”

Lileana Blain-Cruz, The Wall Street Journal

“Is this more than Ivo?” she said, referring to famed Belgian director Ivo van Hove, who over the past year has directed “Antigone” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, David Bowie’s “Lazarus” at New York Theatre Workshop and two Arthur Miller plays on Broadway. “You can tell Ivo I’m coming for him.”

Jacob Gallagher-Ross, The Village Voice

“…an invigorating production by Lileana Blain-Cruz… Playwright Alice Birch provides a bracing reminder that our language, customs, and basic ideas about work and life are all encoded with the legacy of brutality. If only we could start again. With Birch’s dauntless vision as exemplar, we can try.”

David Cote, Critics' Pick, Time Out New York

“Brevity is power…The linguistic and visual density that Birch and director Lileana Blain-Cruz achieve leaves you emotionally winded yet still engaged.”

Alice Birch, The New York Times

“My writing has always been much louder than I am,” she said over coffee downstairs, in a cafe looking onto Central Park. “I consider myself incredibly lucky to have that space to be so noisy and to say the things that I feel passionate about. I don’t think I would stand up and say those things necessarily. I don’t think I would have the confidence to.”