Chicago Tribune - Somewhat Recommended
"...I think part of the issue in director Nate Cohen's production is that Coover reads a tad too young role for this role and, although Anderson leans beautifully into his character's suspicions and uncertainties, he is more uneasy when it comes to approaching his regeneration. The show has a jumpy kind of rhythm, especially in its sensual scenes, manifest in lots of moving around of inconsequential pieces of furniture when it needs more of a more humanistic build, allowing us to believe in this couple while worrying at every moment that the rug under them, and under all of us, will be pulled away."
Chicago Reader - Recommended
"...Stephens's play takes its title from a principle of quantum mechanics developed by German physicist Werner Heisenberg. In Georgie's colloquial explanation, it means that the closer you look at an object, the less you can observe its speed or the direction it's traveling. As Georgie and Alex grow closer to one another, they initially know little about each other's motives and aims. It's only when the truth comes out and they come to understand each other's faults and traumas that they can decide whether their paths will continue in the same direction."
Around The Town Chicago - Not Recommended
"...Great acting cannot save a chaotic and confused story in Griffin Theatre Company’s “Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle.” A choppy script combined with too many inappropriate f-bombs and needless hysterics make the show memorable for all the wrong reasons. To say that this production falls short is an understatement."
Chicago Theatre Review - Recommended
"...This is a sweet story, almost a a fantasy, in some ways. A May-to-December love story isn’t the typical subject of most dramas, but then this isn’t a typical play. In Simon Stephens’ tightly constructed one-act, it actually works. This intergenerational romance skillfully paints a portrait of how opposites can, and sometimes do, attract."
Third Coast Review - Recommended
"...Heisenberg is an entertaining 90 minutes but there are a few bumps in the road, most of them problems with the script rather than the staging or performances. Nate Cohen's direction makes for smooth transitions from scene to scene, on a stage set up according to the playwright's direction: Bare stage, walls and lighting rigs revealed, all props and costumes for the whole play on stage the entire time. (Scene design and lighting by Garrett Bell, sound design by L.J. Luthringer, and costumes by Rachel Sypniewski.)"
NewCity Chicago - Somewhat Recommended
"...“Heisenberg” isn’t exactly a bad play: it’s just a thin, slow-moving one, driven by a male ambivalence about women that portrays the female protagonist less as a human being than a kind of shape-shifting femme fatale. Aiming for philosophical profundity, the play settles for wispy conventionality. We learn only that people aren’t particles, and while subatomic motions can be random, plotting and characterization cannot."