Farewell My Friend: The Tragic Romance of Star-Crossed Lovers presented by (re)discover theatre at Epworth United Methodist Church

Chicago Reader - Recommended

"...This time directors Janet Howe and Matt Wills play things significantly looser; we're given leave to take any path we choose. I followed Romeo until his propensity for swallowing his lines made me jump ship to Juliet and then Lady Capulet. I got stranded in theatrical doldrums for a bit, but subsequently had a grand time watching an audience member join the Capulets for an inexplicable tea ceremony. The actors struggle with Shakespeare's text, so seek out the weird rituals."

ChicagoCritic - Not Recommended

"...For those who enjoy immersive and movement-based theatre solely on the basis of their praxis, you will find in Farewell My Friend 90 minutes of constant bliss. For those who expect to be moved by a romantic tragedy double-feature (and especially those unfamiliar with both stories), you will find the initial novelty of this immersive production quickly fades into a confusing monotony of movement and empty gesticulations."

Splash Magazine - Highly Recommended

"...I was still deeply moved, deeply touched by the experience. This is what Farewell My Friend has to offer its audience: an emotional experience that is defined as much by words as by their absence, and a plurality of journeys that makes it worth seeing again and again. (re)discover theatre has done something great."

NewCity Chicago - Somewhat Recommended

"...Viewers are given license to roam relatively freely through Epworth Church, impressively transformed with paper, string and cardboard in a design by Brandin Hurley. Tara Bouldrey is a free-spirited, patchouli-drenched Juliet, smitten by her classically romantic Romeo (Raj Bond) and oppressed by her martial father (James Bould). As her parallel, Karissa J. Murrell Myers (Iseult) is spritely, elemental and savage in a role primarily expressed through movement and vocalization. Costuming by Virginia Swift Varland is erratic but no more so than the rest of the production."