Brothers of the Dust presented by Congo Square Theatre at Chicago Center For Performing Arts

Chicago Sun Times - Highly Recommended

"...If at times the plotting can feel a bit overly schematic, it hardly matters, for Canady has devised impressively distinctive and believable voices for each of his seven characters, and under Daniel Bryant’s superb direction (backed by fine design work by Andrei Onegin, Casey Diers, Samantha Jones and Rick Sims), the actors are uniformly smoking hot."

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...James Alfred gives the bitterly self-sufficient Roy a commanding presence. The other members of Daniel Bryant's Congo Square Theatre cast are uneven, but they hit enough of the right notes to carry the tune."

Windy City Times - Recommended

"...To city-dwellers, a patch of soil may seem a curious treasure to rouse such passions as Canady has us witness, but at a time when countless citizens face the loss of their homes, his efficiently crafted parable reawakens our awareness of the reasons that men have fought throughout history for possession of the only enduring fortune a vast country like ours can offer its people."

Time Out Chicago - Recommended

"...Bryant harnesses the soapy energy of Canady’s plot for maximum value. While we’d like to see Alfred show more of bullheaded Roy’s facets, he finally lets down his facade late in the play. And Davis provides a fiery, intensely honest baseline as the lonely, put-upon Mayetta, given a long-overdue opportunity to make her own buried feelings known."