The Yellow Wallpaper presented by The Mill Theatre at Chopin Theatre

Chicago Reader - Recommended

"...The story's protagonist, Kate (Lorelei Sturm), gently resists this infantilizing treatment as she's shut up in an upstairs room with sickly yellow wallpaper. John (Ed Krystosek), her physician husband, mansplains his way around her objections, telling her when she is sick and, later, when she is better. In physical and emotional isolation, Kate projects her fears and longing onto the patterns of the wallpaper itself. The Mill Theatre's inspired production of this iconic story, adapted for the stage by Sturm, avoids any potential melodrama; Jaclyn Biskup's direction heightens its gothic and surreal elements, using voice-over and sound, scenic, and lighting design to help tell the story."

Windy City Times - Highly Recommended

"...Lorelei Sturm's adaptation wisely suspends judgment to focus on the psychological aspects of Gilman's semi-autobiographical account for The Mill performance ensemble. Eleanor Kahn's scenic design marks out the chamber's sinister walls with a web of crisscrossed ropes, so that when our invalid appears, shackled at one ankle by a bright yellow cord, and proceeds to create a cat's-cradle labyrinth as she roams her cloister, we accept director Jaclyn Biskup's visual metaphor immediately, even as we dread the moment when it will arrive at its tragic, but inevitable, conclusion."