2009 Season
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Mauckingbird’s 2008 R&J named in
Top 10 Productions of the Year
Philadelphia Weekly’s 2007-2008 Theater Season Review named
The Misanthrope - one of the Top 10 Productions
Marie Anne Chiment - Best Costume Design
Peter Reynolds - Honorable Mention-Best Director of a Play. Philadelphia Weekly
“...one of the area's best and most daring companies.” TheaterMania
The Misanthrope
The Inquirer calls it -----
“A very accomplished and very enjoyable Moliere comedy, a Misanthrope of much charm and style. Transposing the foppishness of 17th-century French high society to the fabulosity of the gay club world, director Peter Reynolds makes this
all-male production make surprising sense...”
Read the full review here: Inquirer
The Weekly Press Says-----
“The Misanthrope will always remain the same. Yet, paradoxically, this is what makes its timeless universality, in the hands of Mauckingbird, work so well in its all-male milieu.”
Read the full review here: Weekly Press
The Edge wrote-----
“... the production bristles with bitter humor, timing the wit of each insult so that each character gives as good as he gets, and where the priceless line, "your uppence has finally come," could easily apply to all.”
Read the full review here: Edge
“…rush to Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s explosive production of Joe Calarco’s R&J”
Read the full review: Philadelphia Weekly
“…gloriously achieving what all great theater should: It makes the new familiar, and the familiar, new.”
Read the full review: City Paper
“Everything made sense...as the four young men...transformed one of the worlds most famous stories...”
Read the full review: Henrik Eger
Shakespeare’sR & J
Feature Article Philadelphia Inquirer ---
R & J Photos by John Flak
“Mauckingbird is a theatre company worth heading out for on a cold winter evening.”
“...this production is both playful and dangerous, continually engaging and tantalizingly provocative.”
“...a truly great new production with a twist that makes it, in my opinion, a more interesting imagining of Ibsen’s original.”
“...a decidedly modern take on the original story’s themes and conflicts.”
--Uwishunu
“This is not only intriguing theatrically, it is hot, with all of those repressive social mores already swirling, adding another layer of scandale.”
--The Edge
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler Photos by John Flak
2008 Season
“...the performances are what make the show a must see. “ Edge
“With Peter Reynolds' skillful direction on an unadorned stage and Evan Jonigkeit's terrific acting in the role of Loeb, Never the Sinner does in fact rivet our attention...” Inquirer
“Produced by the excellent Mauckingbird...
Reynolds direction is deft...” WRTI
“The show has tremendous acting... If you have not yet seen a play by this theater company, I feel compelled to ask: What are you waiting for?” phillymag.com
Photo- Jill McCorkel
Never the Sinner
Never the Sinner Photos by John Flak