Foxfinder Reviews
Chicago Tribune- Highly Recommended
"...All the performances are top-notch. The newcomer Olin, with a face like he belongs to "The Book of Mormon," is a particular find, but the core of the show really is Fisher, playing a woman who must try and hold everything together in the face of an assault on every aspect of her married life. Alanna Rogers, who plays her friend, Sarah, is also very potent. It's a heck of a staging, really, all just a few feet from your face."
Chicago Reader- Highly Recommended
"...In the vein of The Crucible and the more conspiratorial works of Harold Pinter, Interrobang Theatre Project's production, directed by Margaret Knapp, gets the blood boiling and taps into grand societal-scale themes without ever zooming out of the heroes' domestic and claustrophobic story of grief and survival."
Time Out Chicago- Highly Recommended
"...Knapp’s production is incredibly well-paced and tuned to the exact right wavelength. Fisher and Marshall are both fantastic, with Fisher’s performance becoming ever more tightly wound while Marshall’s, in contrast, becomes ever-more unhinged. (Olin’s performance, on the other hand, is a bit off: His William is more like a flickering candle when he should be a butane torch.) And the show’s design elements are all top-notch as well—something that isn’t common from the storefront set—with Jesse Case’s score and John Kelly’s lights deserving special praise alongside the dead-on rain effect conjured by set designer Eric Luchen. When building a world onstage, especially a world that is both so like and unlike our own, it’s details like these that count. And they’re the details that Knapp and company deliver."
Chicago On Stage- Highly Recommended
"...Foxfinder is a taut, provocative, and timely play. By presenting a world in which nature itself has turned against man (can anyone say Climate Change?) Dawn King allows us to examine the ways in which we turn against each other. The truth, as they say on The X-Files, is out there. It's just that it can be very, very hard to see."
Picture This Post- Highly Recommended
"...Come ready to be disturbed, and also knowing that it’s worth it. No sugar coating here—humanity is on a one-way speed train to hell."
NewCity Chicago- Recommended
"...Put this baldly, the premise of “Foxfinder,” a 2011 work now enjoying its Midwestern premiere courtesy of Interrobang Theatre Project, sounds like something out of Mike Judge’s goofball satire “Idiocracy.” But British playwright Dawn King’s script isn’t the least bit funny. It’s a grim allegory in the form of a gothic-tinged sci-fi thriller, rendered by director Margaret Knapp and her four-person cast (along with lighting designer John Kelly, who bathes the proceedings in a frosty, subtly spooky blue glow) into a gripping and thought-provoking theatrical experience."