Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, 1912) presented by Court Theatre at Online Stream

Chicago Sun Times - Recommended

"...Court Theatre’s pre-filmed, streamed staging of Owen McCafferty’s “Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912)” shows the human tragedies that unfolded in harrowing, gruesome detail after the real-life Titanic hit the iceberg that sent more than 1,500 souls down to the lightless depths two miles beneath the North Atlantic."

Chicago On Stage - Highly Recommended

"...Stalling directs all of this at a brisk pace, and the two-hour performance breezes along despite its visually sedentary nature. She also makes the interesting decision to take the viewer behind the scenes, as it were, by allowing us to hear the stage manager’s opening and closing calls and see the actors taking the time to disinfect their stations before someone else uses them. She is aided greatly by Mikhail Fiksel’s inventive and intense sound design, which features often-overlapping telegraphic messages sent to and from Titanic as well as from other ships in the vicinity including the Carpathian, which ended up rescuing those who could be rescued. Fiksel ups the ante with original music that increases the tension in throughout the show."

TotalTheater - Highly Recommended

"...The Tony award-winning Court Theater has hired a cast of A-list actors equipped with virtuoso vocal delivery (as well as Eva Brenemen's "dialect design" and Mikhail Fiksel's sound track of ghostly maritime ambience) to ensure the narrative never grows tedious during the nearly two hours of verbal scrutiny necessary to solve the mystery—not of WHOdunit, but WHYdiddit happen? [Hint: The discovery lies in the witness statement of Arctic explorer/Ice whisperer Ernest Shackelton—listen up, lest you miss it.]"