Cam Baby presented by Chimera Ensemble at Flat Iron Arts Building

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...Jesse Roth's production for Chimera Ensemble features vulnerable, naturalistic performances by Nora Hunt and Arif Yampolsky as a couple caught in the crosshairs, but the rest plays out as a cautionary tale with easy answers to easy questions."

Our Urban Times - Recommended

"...Deceptions begin to unravel. Clara finds out about the video...Natalie tattles on Clara...Tim is in disbelief...Damien and Joseph... you'll just have to buy a ticket and support a local new theatre group to find out how this muddle works out in 90-minutes, with no intermission."

The Hawk Chicago - Recommended

"...Chimera Ensemble's production of Cam Baby is not perfect, but it is an interesting and exciting offering from a young company. Of the three premieres I took in last week in Chicago, the first two of which were at much bigger theatrical institutions, Jessica Moss' script was the most thought-provoking by far. Cam Baby is a juicy dramedy for today that will leave you thinking."

Picture This Post - Highly Recommended

"...While light-hearted in spots the play is brutal in its reality, in its ugliness of the stronger manipulating the weaker and what “good people” are capable of when lacking some kind of self-worth."

Splash Magazine - Highly Recommended

"..."In a modern day all-too-Americanized version of a bedroom farce, lives are stripped raw and Clara must address the issues facing all those who come of age in this Twittering era: How do you decide whom to trust? What can we expect in the way of confidentiality when our telephones "share" contacts and nothing is ever really deleted? This humanizing look at technology begs the question: What does it mean to truly know someone in an age of reality shows, surveillance, and self-promotion? This is a very very smart play portrayed by each and every character with spot-on intensity. They are all exposed, all riven to the heart, all made to disclose. The dialogue is rapid and many layered, the language a ferociously funny meld of pseudo/psycho/meme/babble.""