The Maids at The Artistic Home

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...For his Artistic Home staging, Michael Conroy has chosen to mix things up to the extent that Madame is played by Brookelyn Hebert, who presents unambiguously as a woman, while Claire and Solange are embodied by drag artists Patience Darling and Hinkypunk respectively. What we see for most of the show's 90-minute running time are two lean, tallish people in extravagant face makeup transitioning back and forth between ball gowns and the tastefully kinkified maid uniforms created by costume designer Zachery Wagner."

Windy City Times - Highly Recommended

"...The Maids at the Artistic Home theater is little bit unexplainable, but deeply entrancing. It's a fearsome ode to power and manipulation, and is also about putting on a pristine facade to deter anyone from looking closely at your undercarriage. This 90-minute slow-burn story shape-shifts from performance art, to a drag catwalk, to poetry, to feverish daydream, to a kinky, BDSM fantasy. It's enigmatic enough that, like your co-worker who won't stop gushing about seeing Cirque du Soleil in Vegas, we can never capture the spirit of it."

Picture This Post - Highly Recommended

"...It would be too simple to say that sisters Claire (Patience Darling) and Solange (Hinkypunk) hate Madame (Brookelyn Hebert). Oh, they certainly do, but Madame is so much more beautiful, graceful, self-assured, intelligent, and perceptive, that they cannot help but love her. Or lust for her. And for her boyfriend, whom they have just had arrested by sending the police an anonymous and probably bogus tip-off."