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Read the feature on Ripe Time, Fire Throws and Rachel Dickstein in the March 2009 issue of American Theatre magazine!
“Rachel Dickstein’s high-tech adaptation of “Antigone” splits its heroine in two: while one Antigone (Laura Butler) enacts the well-worn events of the tragedy, another (Erica Berg) stands out of time, reflecting on the action and revealing a tinge of regret beneath her iron will . . . Dickstein’s true innovation is in the visual language she creates, a striking blend of movement and video projection that conveys a fragmented yet distinctly ancient world.” – The New Yorker
“Visually stunning ….Invoking the multidisciplinary ritualism of ancient Greek drama, Dickstein combines sculptural dance and live gamelan music with projected video to envelop 3LD’s stage with ravishing imagery and sound.…with a few scraps of fabric, stark lighting and a rigorous ensemble, Dickstein clearly has all she needs to create visual poetry.”—Time Out
“Vibrant… instantly captivates” - Theatremania, full review HERE
“Rachel Dickstein’s … direction, with some astonishing stage pictures that splash your eyes … is startlingly adept at making two millennia worth of history up-to-the-moment trenchant.” – Talkin’ Broadway
“Mesmerizingly lovely.” – The Staten Island Advance, full review HERE
“A remarkable achievement.” - offoffonline.com
“ A richly sensual and imaginative triptych filled with pleasures for the eyes and ears.” - Joe Dziemianowicz, The Daily News full review
“Intoxicating! [Director Rachel] Dickstein is clearly a passionate artist and she’s staged this piece with an ecstatic vigor of a woman in love.” -- Kerri Allen, Time Out full review
“Dickstein weaves a dreamy, enchanting dance-theatre piece. The cast enacts each story with glowing fullness, and Vijay Iyer’s liquid music shimmers throughout.” – Pam Renner, The New Yorker full review
“Breathtaking and poignant. A theatrical event to be reckoned with.” –Fred Backus nytheatre.com
“The work of an impressive young auteur.” – Andy Propst, backstage.com
Read the feature by Eliza Bent in the Brooklyn Rail! (click here)
Ms. Dickstein artfully draws the audience into a mesmerizing mood piece composed of seamless vignettes . . . . ravishing moments . . . stunning images . . . pure visual entertainment . . . . Dickstein is a maverick illusionist.” -Phoebe Hoban, The New York Times (full review)
“The ensemble is gorgeously functional as a troupe, enacting Lily’s tragic story in an impressionistic style that finds bold images and expressive movement for the emotions behind the words. Grand and glorious.” – Marilyn Stasio, Variety (full review)
“Ravishing” – Rachel Wetzsteon, Village Voice
“A dazzling achievement!” – Backstage
“Beautiful, sophisticated theatre.” – David Delrosso, nytheatre.com (full review)
“One of the most visually elegant productions you’ll ever see.” – David Noh, Gay City News
About THE SECRET OF STEEP RAVINES (2002)
“The Secret of Steep Ravines” is a dark, dreamlike return to the spirit of the Great Depression. Not simply a drama, this production incorporates music and imaginative choreography [to create] a multilayered, involving theatrical experience. . . . [A]n evocative visit to a place in the past that exists in the imagination.”
- Robin Eisgrau, offoffoff.com
“[The Secret of Steep Ravines] exploits the theater’s unique capacity to engage reality and fantasy at the same time, to make pretty stage pictures by morphing everyday objects or gestures into abstractions, and to let language slide into movement and back again.”
– Alisa Solomon, The Village Voice
About THE HOLY MOTHER OF HADLEY NEW YORK (2001)
“Riveting. . . . a serious and moving study of the persistent human need to believe in a power greater than us.”—The Westsider
“[The finale] creates a delicious tension that engulfs the audience as much as the actors, right until its nearly perfect resolution.”
– Theatremania.com