Isaac's Eye at Redtwist Theatre

Chicago Reader - Recommended

"...Guiding the audience through this situation is an everyman-type narrator, who annotates the action with verbal commentary, sometimes writing on a chalkboard to explain what is historical fact and what is the playwright's invention. Brilliantly played by young Jackie Seijo, this storyteller doubles as a dying victim of the Great Plague of 1665-1666, upon whom Newton attempts to perform his eye-poking experiment before deciding to try it on himself."

Chicago Theatre Review - Recommended

"...When you think of Isaac Newton, who do you think of? Maybe you think of him as the inventor of Calculus, or more likely, the person who discovered gravity after that apple fell from a tree and hit him on the head.. But Isaac is a much more complicated man than that... as you'll see in Redtwist's performance of Isaac's Eye by Lucas Hnath and directed by Rinska Carrasco-Prestinary."

NewCity Chicago - Recommended

"...The show's energy is propelled by a bravura, often funny, turn by Redtwist Ensemble member Michael Sherwin as Hooke and by Jackie Seijo in the dual role as the puckish and subversive narrator and a suitably dismayed plague sufferer who, cruelly, becomes the two scientists' lab rat. The most unsettling pathology in the show, however, is not the bubonic kind, but the sociopathology that often drives discovery."