All Girl Edgar Allan Poe presented by The Chicago Mammals at Zoo Studio

Windy City Times - Recommended

"...Assigning a leotard-clad actor the role of feline nemesis in Black Cat solves the always-difficult task of replicating animals onstage, as does portraying The Raven's avian phantom as an Edward Gorey-esque wraith bearing an artificial corvid. Less successful is The Tell-Tale Heart's representation of the doomed man's cataract-afflicted eye with an oversized prosthetic not unlike the masks seen earlier, but still tending too much toward comic exaggeration. Anthology productions cannot help but vary in their quality, however, and the measure of inventive originality evident in this 90-minute collection is well worth the shivery creep up Ravenswood alley."

Stage and Cinema - Somewhat Recommended

"...Sasha Warren’s solo vehicle “Imp of the Perverse” is the least compelling. Most of her lengthy monologue is delivered sitting on a prison bench. What nearly saves her segment is the intriguing black-and-white stills and film clips flashing across the screen behind her. It’s not obvious, however, what, if any, connection there is between word and image. An entirely different approach is taken by Whitney LaMora’s direction of “Masque of the Red Death,” which is told entirely through music, dance, and costume, proving that words are unnecessary."

Chicago Stage and Screen - Somewhat Recommended

"...Adaptor, director and performer Sasha Warren has taken on an insurmountable task in staging the “Imp of the Perverse.” Despite evocative music by Sarah Scanlon and expressionistic video projections, also by Warren, that reinforce the narrative through the eyes of the condemned narrator, the story is too much philosophy to make for an exciting stage narrative. Warren delivers an intense performance as the victim of the Imp, but telegraphs the ending in the early sections, where it might have been more effective to disarm and charm the audience before revealing the nature of the victimization."