Windy City Times - Recommended
"...The Last Daughter of Oedipus represents another step for the all-female Babes With Blades troupe towards serious depictions of women sound in both mind and body. The mixed-gender ensemble led by Kimberly Logan in the title role acquit themselves commendably, retaining control of their elevated speech and athletic choreography under the direction of Tara Branham. And if Mickelson's episodic saga sometimes verges on epic length ( though, in fact, only running a bare two and a half hours ) , there is no faulting her efforts to resolve dramatic questions left unanswered since 441 B.C."
Centerstage - Recommended
"...As expected from the Babes, we get lots of good swordfights, but the best things about this production are the performances. Kimberly Logan, as Ismene, sympathetically portrays the agony of being torn between duty and grief. Company MVP Amy Harmon is also memorable as the alternatively folksy and divinely possessed Oracle of Delphi."
Chicago Stage Review - Recommended
"...Director Tara Branham has created a visual bounty out of material that could have easily been a boring theatrical dirge. What is missing here is combat. For a production by the Babes With Blades, there is precious little combat, and the combat that there is lacks the focus, intensity, and all-out relish that the Babes have demonstrated in other productions, like Macbeth and A Gulag Mouse."
Time Out Chicago - Somewhat Recommended
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There’s a sense of chance and abandoned plotlines surrounding Ismene’s journey, as she takes on a traveling companion, determines to stop an impending war with Athens, and is taken hostage and frog-marched to Delphi. Yet richly physical staging, the company’s hallmark, adds a unifying energy to the text. It comes alive in movement director Mercedes Rohlfs’s beautifully blocked dream sequences, in which Ismene is manipulated by a trio of Furies, and in a visit with the oracle at Delphi."
ChicagoCritic - Somewhat Recommended
"...Performed by the Babes with Blades, an all female “combat” theatre group, The Last Daughter of Oedipus is served well by this “no nonsense” cast of women. (They are two men in this show, but relatively inconsequential) “The Babes” handle swords, and kick-ass with the best of them. The acting isn’t bad either…a great ensemble for this script. Logan’s Ismene seemed flat in the beginning, but she turned things around and punctuated the show with a great second act. The script was well thought out, and was well crafted. The dialogue seemed to stay consistent with other Greek tragedies…slightly touched up with some modern English for today’s audience."
Chicago Stage and Screen - Somewhat Recommended
"...Though I wasn't thrilled by this play, I certainly won't be shying away from seeing Babes With Blades in action in the future. In a sea of theatre companies, they have a fantastic mission and I know for a fact that they kick ass on many other occasions. With so many actresses in Chicago and so few parts, it's important to have a theatre company that works to put the power back into the hands of women. I look forward to future productions (including what should be a very fascinating Romeo and Juliet in the spring), but I'll have to wait till then to really get my fix of exciting combat."
Chicago Theater Beat - Highly Recommended
"...Kimberly Logan brings intelligent desperation to her interpretation of Ismene. The role itself swings from feeling badly to feeling less bad to feeling profoundly bad before Ismene’s final redemption in the underworld. It’s up to supporting characters to realize the plays’ lighter side—to which end, Harmon’s turn as the Pythia at the Oracle of Delphi makes for amazing and insightful comic catharsis. Here is a scene that both spoofs and takes seriously our era’s Goddess spirituality movements."