Nautilina Reviews
Chicago Reader- Highly Recommended
"...For this environmental, immersive program of intersecting monologues and vignettes, the adventurous Agency Theater Collective has taken over a raw black-box space at the Den Theatre in Wicker Park and transformed it into a dumpy bar called Finnegan's. Audience members sit at tables and booths, sometimes joined by the actors as they deliver their stream-of-consciousness reflections, reminiscences, and rants. Is the faux tavern's name a reference to James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake? I don't know, but certainly the absurd, sometimes profane, sometimes funny, and sometimes downright mystifying soliloquies evoke a dreamlike experience as the characters try to escape from their emotional shells (thus, I suppose, the show's title reference to shelled sea creatures)."
NewCity Chicago- Not Recommended
"...The Wikipedia entry on "Nautilina" states, "The Nautilina is the last suborder of the Nautilida and the only nautiloids living since the end of the Triassic." If Brian Foster's play of the same title had been about prehistoric mollusks or contained a quarter of the poetry (subject-verb disagreement notwithstanding), it may have held more charm. Instead, it is an interminable series of disconnected monologues, each delivered like Bottom the Weaver on a methandrostenolone bender."