Six Degrees of Separation at Redtwist Theatre

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...As the author notes, the play must "go like the wind." Director Steve Scott's staging goes like a gentle breeze. In Redtwist's cramped confines, superimposition of scenes is impossible, requiring a full reset each time Guare's script veers off in yet another unexpected direction (in the original Lincoln Center production, actors often appeared and disappeared on an upper level as though floating in darkness). And Scott's cast struggles to find a tone pliable enough to encompass the script's stylistic extremes. Everything is clear and cogent and, best of all, intellectually engaging, but it lacks the feverishness that gives the play its hallucinogenic momentum."

Windy City Times - Recommended

"...The real challenge in staging this piece is finding the balance between Paul and Ouisa Kittredge, the woman who finds herself drawn to Paul's story even as the relationship between herself and her art-dealer husband, Flan, begins to fray. ( The relationship with their kids—the ones Paul claims to know from Harvard—is already in tatters. ) Steve Scott's production for Redtwist features stellar work from Jacqueline Grandt as Ouisa and Donovan Session as Paul."

Chicago Theatre Review - Highly Recommended

"...Ultimately, this production of Six Degrees manages to thread the difficult needle of finding something to say while neither beating you over the head with its point or rendering it needlessly opaque in an attempt to seem more interesting. Between the aforementioned production of Virginia Woolf and Parry’s recent star turn as Richard Nixon in Red Twist’s production of Frost/Nixon, I went into this show with some very high expectations and I was not disappointed."

Picture This Post - Highly Recommended

"...Truth to tell when the superb Redtwist company members Jacqueline Grandt (as Ouisa) and Brian Parry (as Flan) begin the play by alluding to the misadventure they have just survived, they sound uncharacteristically exaggerated and false. How fun that we later get to hear these same lines again, realizing these top tier actors were using the forced gaiety and drama of their characters’ cocktail party voices telling the tale. Coupled with their false affect voices, they often stare into your eyes as though you are a guest at their soiree du jour."