The Art Of Disappearing presented by 16th Street Theater at Berwyn Cultural Center

Chicago Tribune - Recommended

"...The small 16th Street stage provides a cunning mix of shifting geometrics in Joanna Iwanicka's scenic design, where windows with a mix of clear and opaque panes suggest the patchwork memories in Charlotte's mind. "I feel like I'm falling off the map of the world all alone," she laments at one point. But "The Art of Disappearing" suggests that it's possible to patch up some parts of the past before sliding off the edge."

Chicago Sun Times - Recommended

"...In Stephanie Alison Walker’s fierce and troubling play, “The Art of Disappearing” — now in its world premiere at Berwyn’s 16th Street Theater under the expert direction of Ann Filmer (whose recent hit was the Remy Bumppo production of “The Clean House”) — that realization assumes downright harrowing and tragic proportions as an already troubled daughter is confronted by the knowledge that her willful and still beautiful mother is suffering from early onset dementia."

NewCity Chicago - Recommended

"...Filmer’s direction cuts to the bone of Walker’s play, and when the tension is appropriately applied throughout (it was a smidge uneven on opening night), the inner muck of family struggle is revealed beautifully."