Chicago Tribune - Recommended
"...The easy "Animal House"-flavored comedy of the play's early portion is essential. This is what reels you in. Consider this offhanded exchange: "She's hot!" "She's fat." "She's fat-hot!" It's a field study in undergrad idiocy, amid discarded red Solo cups and cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon. The guys are fratty and obnoxious, and the women are awful in their own distinctively catty and manipulative way. They are operators, looking out for their own best interests."
Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
"...It plays out like a direct response, and James Yost's gripping Interrobang Theatre Project production picks up on every argumentative angle and nuance. A group of undergraduate Ivy League students tries to piece together a time line leading up to a possibly criminal blackout-drunk encounter the night before, but social pressures, class dynamics, and hazy memories warp each character's narrative. Debate whiplash threatens at times, yet Yost's superb young cast manages both to make sense of it all and to humanize every decision-abhorrent in hindsight as they may be."
Theatre By Numbers - Recommended
"...“REALLY, REALLY” punches the wind out of the myth of a carefree and well-adjusted college student. No one escapes this play without being morally compromised and nowhere is it more starkly laid out than in keynote addresses delivered by Leigh’s roommate Grace (Amanda Lipinski) to a conference of student leaders. Meant to be rousing and inspirational, she calls out her fellows as persistent, unrelenting and far too invested in themselves to take no for an answer. Congratulations, class of 2015; please excuse me while I shower off this grime."
Stage and Cinema - Recommended
"...Kristen Magee’s incredibly brave performance as the social climbing Leigh is largely what makes Really Really believable. In contrast to the rather one-dimensional supporting characters, such as Tommy Beardmore’s unconvincing Jimmy or Maurice Demus’ studious Johnson, Magee takes her complex character to some frighteningly dark places without holding anything back. As Cooper and Davis, respectively, Michael Holding and Ben TeBockhorst expose the violence and hypocrisy that pervade not just our college campuses, but our society as a whole."
Chicago Theatre Review - Highly Recommended
"...Acting as a kind of Greek Chorus, Grace drives home the dominant theme about the “Generation Me,” reminding her audience that it’s all about selfish survival and doing everything you can to get what you want. That’s the name of the game, and ultimately that’s what this entire play is saying about people, especially today’s young people on the brink of adulthood. This is a production that should not be missed."
NewCity Chicago - Highly Recommended
"...In a cast full of strong performances, Magee proves the strongest. She allows Leigh's many contradictions to shine through without ever compromising the righteousness (self- or no) that drives her. Holding and Beardmore are also notable, the former for embodying a lovable douche and the latter for the same minus the lovable. Yost keeps the action tight and the actors focused, while Jeff Kmeic's gun-metal, poster-spattered set creates an atmosphere equal parts rave and dread."