Kiev at Aguijon Theater

Chicago Tribune - Recommended

"...The production hinges on the creepy performance by Sándor Menéndez, whose Esvald flits between charming and menacing with ease. Not knowing how deep the horrors of his character goes is crucial to this play. Then, once those horrors are known, it’s watching a monster and master manipulator at work that sends chills."

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...The arrival of Tavio (Israel Balza), the former tutor for the drowned boy, threatens to uncover everything Esvald has tried to hide. But his own guilt (and the disaster unfolding in the city of the play's title) means that a true healing reckoning can't be found. "The civil atom is as dangerous as the military atom," Esvald observes at one point. In Kiev, that civil danger lives on; remorseless, relentless, and inescapable."