Fight Night at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Chicago Tribune - Recommended

"...“Fight Night” (the title comes from the boxing ring-like setting) offers a clever mix of propositions that probe how you feel about other people, but also how you view yourself. At one point, for example, you’re asked to vote on which of several crude words you consider to be the most offensive: just the appearance of those epithets on a screen was enough on Thursday to provoke sounds of shock."

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...Creepily, amusingly American despite the fact that it's the work of a touring Belgian troupe, Ontroerend Goed, Fight Night plays with all the disturbing ambiguities inherent in an ostensibly democratic process, especially one distorted by digital technology, constant polling, and fake demographics."

WTTW - Highly Recommended

"...Like “BigMouth,” the brilliant one-man show that kicked off the series, and suggested the frequent (and often dangerous) disconnect between substance and style in political oratory over the centuries, “Fight Night” seems to have been devised as a response to the global (dis)temper of our times. But in its exceedingly clever, entertaining, highly polished (and winningly non-intrusive) 85-minute interactive form it could not be more different."

Third Coast Review - Highly Recommended

"...Belgium’s Ontroerend Goed (“Good Moving”) has a distinct outside vantage point to dissect the fraught American electoral system. Their limited run of Fight Night at Chicago Shakespeare is required viewing for armchair sociologists as well as activists and canvassers hoping to influence the electorate."