Fatelessness presented by Theatre Y at Chopin Theatre

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...Theatre Y director Melissa Lorraine's intriguing experiment with Imre Kertesz's Noble Prize-winning novel Fatelessness is half brilliant. While we hear Michael Doonan's prerecorded voice reading a greatly condensed version of the book, which follows bemused, dispassionate 15-year-old Hungarian Jew Gyuri through three Nazi concentration camps, we watch Benjamin Holliday Wardell silently enact a 65-minute yoga routine."

ChicagoCritic - Recommended

"...I would call Theatre Y's production of Fatelessness daring, not least because it challenges its audience's casual investment of attention and intellect, but especially because it offers no extraneous, aesthetic pretentions to disguise the challenge: it is sincerely-that is on principle, for a purpose-unsentimental. Personally, I found the casual and welcoming discussion after the performance more cultivating than the performance itself, but for admirers of avant-garde productions that imagine outside the (black)box, Fatelessness is a singular and fascinating theatrical experience."