Self-Accusation presented by Theatre Y at The Ready

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...Arlene Arnone Bibbs gives the performance of the millennium in what feels at first like the luckiest accident that's ever happened to a theater company trying to shake things up. Her appearance does shake things up. Codirectors Melissa Lorraine and Hector Álvarez get the kind of chaotic magic they were going for and had thus far missed by violating the most sacred expectation of theater: that it has an outside and an inside, and that never the twain shall meet. This frame-shattering sense of fun proves impossible to wring out of a heartless script and a cast that's been trained to scream what it does not understand. But oh, Ms. Bibbs! Peer in on us anytime!"

Chicago Stage and Screen - Highly Recommended

"...Controversial and prolific Austrian writer Peter Handke is probably best known to American audiences for his collaborations with filmmaker Wim Wenders. His work is heavily influenced by growing up in a troubled home in the Soviet portion of Berlin just after World War II: there is a darkness and obsession with the smallest actions of self that characterize most of his writings including the current rendering of his 1966 work Self-Accusation currently on view at the charming Lincoln Square storefront/art gallery that is home to Theatre Y."

NewCity Chicago - Highly Recommended

"...Directed by Melissa Lorraine and Hector Álvarez, "Self-Accusation" flourishes into a spectacle for nine actors that proceeds as a well-rehearsed fever dream. Defying Handke's perverse tendency to abstraction, Theatre Y allows the text to advance and retreat in a succession of potent images that leaves the performance swerving on the edge of sense and nonsense."