They Are Dying Out at Trap Door Theatre

Chicago Tribune - Recommended

"...Fortunately, in addition to Cox, the ensemble includes fine absurdist turns from the rest of the cast. Jeremy Clark inhabits blustering business titan Von Wullnow. Antonio Brunetti brings terrier-like tenacity to striving and doomed stockholder Kilb, and Holly Thomas as Quitt's wounded blond wife is like a more vulnerable version of Betty Draper."

Chicago Stage Review - Highly Recommended

"...Trap Door Theatre’s They Are Dying Out takes us into the belly of the very beast that permeates our reality and manipulates our world while cannibalizing its own. It is a breathtakingly bleak and beautiful incarnation of depravity by way of industrial strength fine art."

Time Out Chicago - Highly Recommended

"... Corporate gamesmanship and inane jingles (scraps of which we hear throughout the play, along with a “civilized” classical score) are equally empty. Against the ballet of ego, violence and vulnerability, the capitalist machine grinds on. In Handke’s vision and Truax’s deft execution, consumerism itself is brutal overkill."

ChicagoCritic - Somewhat Recommended

"...I’m not sure if they production conveys the above character deterioration since I got lost in a some of the long, rambling speeches. But for those loving highly theatrical and intense satire, Trap Door’s They Are Dying Out will give them an intensity fix."