Breed With Me Reviews

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...Writer-director Bob Fisher sets the action in a nightmare landscape composed of shadows and inhabited by ghosts, inducing a case of the willies with creepy voice-overs, murky lighting, and, from the strong cast, a stylized, unpredictable, sitting-on-a-powder-keg quality. The result is weird, unsettling, and deeply compelling, with flashes of humor and insight. Made up to resemble Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard, Sara Gorsky contributes a fascinating, frightening performance as the deadly female."

Centerstage - Not Recommended

"...No doubt flawed, "Breed With Me" may be a tad art school; it may be misogynistic, even occasionally incoherent. That's all beside the point. That a stripped-down show could induce such a gut-churning reaction speaks to the force of Fisher's vision and the power of live theater. Appalling, certainly, but also revelatory, "Breed with Me" is the sort of play you don't forget, though you wish you could."

Time Out Chicago - Recommended

"...Breed with Me may be one of the worst titles in theater history, but the play itself is smart, if weird-ass, pulp fiction. In the American desert, aliens, ghosts and good/bad cops torment a photographer on the run from his past. It’s apt that Breed begins with a car crash: This play was made for rubbernecking. We challenge anyone to name another Cronenberg-esque horror play that tops an orgasming lizard queen, satisfactory Alien-style chest-buster makeup and ghost-erection jokes, all while playing it straight. Fisher’s play, which he first produced in 2003, should be the height of camp; instead, Breed can be genuinely unsettling."