The Unconquered at Trap Door Theatre

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...Beata Pilch's production is pitiless and sharp, with extraordinary performances by Tiffany Bedwell as Girl and Kevin Lucero Less as Soldier."

Chicago Stage Review - Highly Recommended

"...Beata Pilch intuitively directs a feverish rendering of this chaotic reality that draws us in on the visual level and then knocks our psyches back and forth. Funny, frightening and frenetic, this hypno-morality play packs more than loud laughs and literate lines, it exposes the easily twisted and vulnerably dangerous superficiality of lives lived unconsciously serving mainstream convention."

Time Out Chicago - Somewhat Recommended

"...To distract from the script’s shortcomings, Trap Door has amassed a solid, savvy acting and design team. Betts fills his characters’ mouths with a Yoda-like passive voice surely meant to mimic a highfalutin formal meter. Each actor plays around this clunky convention, honoring Betts’s script but mercifully filling in the cracks with an awesome array of slapstick tricks. Lucero Less proves particularly adept at multitasking: The actor vivaciously tackles the role of the soldier who stumbles in on the unassuming family, while also providing a sound design by beatboxing into a headset microphone."

ChicagoCritic - Highly Recommended

"...Betts’ play won the Best New Play Award for Theatre in Scotland in 2007 and has been critically acclaimed as one of the most original and inventive works of recent years. The portrayal of the hollow life of the bourgeoisie is a Marxist rant to be sure, but there’s a grain of truth in the stereotypes and The Unconquered is a refreshingly funny and awesomely artistic repackaging of the premise."