The Word Progress on My Mother's Lips Doesn't Ring True at Trap Door Theatre

Chicago Tribune - Highly Recommended

"...Trap Door has long been the go-to venue in town for European avant-garde drama, but this production is the finest I've yet seen from these indispensable stalwarts of the storefront. It isn't afraid to be emotionally accessible — if you've been tempted to try one of their shows, make it this one. It's a play that one feels along the nerve endings rather than comprehending in a chronological/logical way. After all, whoever can make literal sense of the betrayals and losses of endless warfare?"

Chicago Stage Review - Highly Recommended

"... Trap Door Theatre consistently delivers some of the most superb and most challenging theater to be found anywhere and their production of The Word Progress on My Mother’s Lips Doesn’t Ring True is Trap Door at its finest. It gloriously takes us to a place that is as exquisite as it is overwhelming. It connects us to a part of our humanity that is almost too painful yet completely vital and it elevates theater to its most critical purpose."

Time Out Chicago - Recommended

"...Progress resides in a difficult valley between realism and absurdism, played out on a visually compelling but often distracting set designed by Mike Mroch. Guest director István Szabó K. creates a cerebral experience that lacks the emotional punch its scenes of bereavement seem to drive at.

Chicago Theater Beat - Highly Recommended

"... Trap Door’s stated mission is to seek out challenging yet obscure works and bringing them to life, and in this they have succeeded. progress is certainly the most challenging piece of theater I’ve seen this season, both in the demands it makes on the actors, and the demands it makes on the audience to embrace the emotional weight of other people’s suffering."