Christopher Bonanos

“Maybe it was just that hard-to-describe thing that happens when every piston fires on time, every gear meshes, every valve syncs up, and the thing really takes off down the road.”

“The director, Trip Cullman, appears to have actively played up those disparities rather than modulating them, and the whipsaw changes in mood have a way of knocking you right out of the play.”

“They just stand and deliver, or sometimes sit and deliver, and nearly two hours later you realize that you may not have blinked for minutes at a time while they did it.”

“Doing so in a Broadway house causes them some trouble, though.”

“The torture scenes are visceral, ghastly, and hair-raisingly vivid.”

“The spirit of these scenes is unassailable; the goopiness that they add to the last half-hour of the show isn't.”