Chicago Tribune
- Recommended
"...Wilson’s visual storytelling is exceptionally strong and disciplined and this show has more polish than anything I’ve seen at Redmoon in years. Like Julie Taymor, Wilson likes to show several different representations of the same character—Mauldin plays the daughter, as do several puppets of varying style, dimension and scale. It’s very sophisticated fare. And if you’re interested in computer animation, this is a play not to miss."
Chicago Sun Times
- Recommended
"...The show's live action and its many forms of theatrical wizardry are nicely meshed, with Jonathon Oxlade's artful design, Jamie Clennett's lovely animation and Graeme Davis' delicately jointed puppets particularly appealing. But this is definitely not kids' stuff."
Daily Herald
- Highly Recommended
"...With the exception of John Horan's somber lighting and Lara Golan's appropriately unsettling music, Redmoon's production is a remount of a show Australian director Jessica Wilson premiered in Sidney last year. Artfully integrating her pitch-perfect ensemble with Jamie Clennett's ingenious animation and Graeme Davis' puppet doppelgangers, Wilson's staging is nothing less than inspired."
EpochTimes
- Highly Recommended
"...Redmoon Theater, a group that started in 1989 in Logan Square with a mission to create "spectacle Theater", a form of visual and imaginative as well as inventive theater- using puppetry, mechanical objects,physical movement and special effects. Oh yes, they also use actors! Their current production, 'Dr.Egg and the Man with No Ear" is exactly all of the above with music to boot."
Centerstage
- Highly Recommended
"...The stage pictures brought to life by Australian creator Jessica Wilson and Redmoon artistic director Jim Lasko—with animations by Jamie Clennett—are all the more affecting because they actually complement Redmoon's usual, decidedly low-tech aesthetic: a bunraku-style puppet girl swims through a digitally-rendered ocean; a desolate sea shore is conjured by a black and white lighthouse projected on a transparent screen."
Edge
- Highly Recommended
"...Animated video, puppetry, live actors and soundscape make for a one-hour piece that is a completely charming, winning, cautionary Frankenstein tale. It’s about a daughter’s love gone terribly wrong though genetic engineering run amok. And it’s told so inventively that you can’t help but be caught up by the sleight of hand that makes it work as a fable."
Chicago Stage Review
- Highly Recommended
"...The cast is solid but the real magic of this production is in the making of it. The puppets, constructed by Graeme Davis, create beautifully intimate scenes as well as humor and anticipation. The animation, by Jamie Clennett, flows in and out of the visual narrative like an elegant breeze. Amanda Carr’s whimsical costumes and John Horan’s atmospheric lighting direction provide dramatically lovely accents to the show. Lara Golan’s original music is haunting, mesmerizing and lingers with you after you leave."
Time Out Chicago
- Highly Recommended
"... Inducing the kind of double-takes reserved for Pixar movies—the actors and puppets against a black background resemble high-res animation—the bold, optically startling Dr. Egg, directed by Australian Wilson, is the first Redmoon show I’ve seen that left me not satisfied but craving more."
ChicagoCritic
- Highly Recommended
"...You’ll be fully engaged and totally mesmerized by the artistry and theatrical effects from this show. Redmoon Theatre offers a first-class production of fine Australian fable. Take you kids to see a theatrical thrilling show filled with a fine message."
