The Way She Spoke Reviews
Chicago Reader- Not Recommended
"...The result is a tricksy, clumsy, adolescent exercise in political narcissism. I can't say how abhorrent I find it that an atrocity is turned here into the backdrop for a self-dramatizing and unmerited mea culpa. If Gomez hopes to make a real theatrical statement, I'd suggest he read some Brecht."
Time Out Chicago- Highly Recommended
"...The play has a dreamlike quality, with Rodriguez moving between herself and Gomez and the women of Juarez and back again, that could get away from many directors. Luckily, Laura Baker's assured direction keeps everything in hand, doing wonderful justice to both Rodriguez and Gomez. Despite its surface simplicity, The Way She Spoke is actually unspeakably complex, juggling not just disparate characters and points of view but also a whole rat's nest of moral and philosophical questions. It's as much about the women who died as all the people who are left to reckon with those deaths. And the play lets no one off the hook."