Thee Trinity at Royal George Theatre

Chicago Reader - Not Recommended

"...To improve customer satisfaction for "corporeals" (read "Muggles") on their journeys through heaven and hell, the empyreal board has summoned Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and-from the pit of Hades, where he's continuously raped by 72 male virgins for eternity-Osama Bin Laden. the empyreal board has summoned Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and-from the pit of Hades, where he's continuously raped by 72 male virgins for eternity-Osama Bin Laden. So much here is amiss (playwright Rick Roberts's Wilde is an offensive sham) that the play isn't so much a play as a sniggering, interminable joke that isn't funny."

ChicagoCritic - Not Recommended

"...After two days of struggling to unpack what exactly Mr. Roberts is trying to say in Thee Trinity - why the ambiguously characterized Lucifer and Einstein (science) get the last word; why Jesus does not theologically defend himself; what significance it all bears on the conclusion - I have arrived at no greater insight other than Mr. Roberts does not saying anything clearly - if in fact he does say anything at all. Yet, as one can posit for any obtuse play whose aim is "discussion:" perhaps these are the very questions we are supposed to be asking. Indeed, perhaps this is all part of Mr. Roberts' plan - including his curiously illiterate title, Thee Trinity. When asked in a recent interview if there was any reason for the double "e," Mr. Roberts stated: "Because it's biblical. You see a lot of it in the bible so I wanted to specify that but even that is a little tongue-in-cheek." At least to me, that is a reasoning that speaks true - for the whole of the play."