The Siddhartha Project: A Down Home, Apocalyptic, Avalanche of Beauty presented by Collaboraction at Lumen

Chicago Tribune - Not Recommended

"...I've certainly searched for enlightenment in a Heineken before, but the up-and-down material here mostly doesn't sit so well in this locale. Take Graney's contribution. It's a very stark and rough piece about date rape. It needs a different visual context. And while it's always pleasant to move around a space, poor acoustics and intrusive pillars get in the way throughout the show."

Chicago Sun Times - Somewhat Recommended

"...Throughout, director Joel Moorman has conjured some simple but effective staging tricks, and his 10 actors are invariably willing and able. The material, however, is generally short of mind-altering."

Chicago Reader - Not Recommended

"...Collaboraction invited five playwrights to rework five key episodes in Hermann Hesse's 1922 novel, but the resulting work largely omits the serene, introspective formality that gives the book its allure. Blowing apart a classic can produce revelations, but instead of meaningful insights this production offers mostly kitschy, incongruous takes on Siddhartha..."

Time Out Chicago - Not Recommended

"...Based on the Hermann Hesse novel Siddhartha, the “project” is a writing-for-writers game, each of its five sections composed by a different playwright, each section corresponding in some fashion to a different portion of Hesse’s tale, with the casting and period shifting dreamily from piece to piece. The problem with this spasmodic experiment? If you haven’t read the book, you’ll be guaranteed lost."