Softly Blue presented by MPAACT at The Greenhouse Theater Center

Chicago Tribune - Somewhat Recommended

"...The main problem with Aakhu's script is that it leaves us with nagging questions of internal logic. I was not convinced, for example, that Sloan's fear of death from his severe but manageable disease is so crippling, he hardly ever leaves his home. (Surely he could find an online support group for people living with diabetes to help him out.)"

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...The script, which MPAACT is revisiting after first staging in 2006, contains some affecting lyrical monologues on loneliness, death, and despondency; in Andrea J. Dymond’s unhurried production, Brandon Greenhouse and Demetria Thomas, as the couple, deliver their speeches with intelligence and emotional subtlety. But Aakhu hasn’t figured out a way to dramatize the characters’ inaction (never an easy task), settling instead for having them describe their stalemate to one another over and over again."