Multitudes presented by Rasaka Theatre Company and Vitalist Theatre Company at Victory Gardens Theater - Biograph

Chicago Reader - Not Recommended

"...here's no relief to be found in Liz Carlin Metz's production, a collaboration between Rasaka and Vitalist theater companies. The show lacks momentum, location changes are insufficiently delineated, and double or triple casting creates confusion. At times I found myself wondering whom I was watching and why."

Windy City Times - Somewhat Recommended

"...The combined expertise of the Rasaka and Vitalist companies-notably, director Liz Carlin Metz, no stranger to sprawling didactic narratives-strives mightily to inject human elements into a talking-heads text further cluttered by Brock Alter's video footage of World Events and actors double- and triple-cast, editorializing in Catherine Gillespie's pinpoint-accurate Yorkshire dialect. While the sad truth is that all social conflict, whatever its purported goals, has a way of exacting collateral damage among its citizenry, Hollingworth's efforts to "represent multitudes" in his sermon ultimately undermines his good intentions."

ChicagoCritic - Recommended

"...Multitudes is a timely play, especially with all the xenophobia stirred up by Trump during our current election cycle. What Multitudes demonstrates happened in England could happen here if fear of those who look different and pray different are allowed to be discriminated against. Multitudes reminds us that we need to cherish our differences NOT be fearful; that diversity is strength. That lesson always needs to be expressed so that the bigots can never prevail."

NewCity Chicago - Somewhat Recommended

"...A project with sincere liberal intentions, “Multitudes” reflects certain realities of our neoconservative sociopolitical moment. Rasaka and Vitalist execute the material well, but the piece is at best a conversation starter rather than a work that enlightens or defines. It is no barbaric yawp."