REVIEWS
AMAZING…unlike anything we have seen in living memory.
- Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts
On the basis of what [Grody] accomplished with Strange Faces, it would be no surprise to begin reading about her quite soon in the entertainment trade publications. … It is to be hoped that the audiences for the final weekend will strain the capacity of the Matthews Acting Studio.
- Barbara Westergaard, U.S.1
With integrity and stark simplicity…Grody manages to shine a new kind of light on living and learning with Asperger’s, one that focuses on its humanity and emotional network rather than the negative behavior attributed to one outburst in one day of an individual’s life.
- Deena Welde, Examiner
There are a multitude of theatrical pieces these days that try to be moving or brilliant or important or any number of stunning things. Few are. Strange Faces is not trying to be any of these things, yet is.
Strange Faces merely tries to tell an honest story, a personal story, a real story. It is in this that it moves people, achieves brilliance, states something important. It compellingly asks of us what all truly great theatre asks — to look into a strange face, and there see something of ourselves.
At the core of this show is a house-sized heart that beats with all the tenderness and fury of life, love, pain, courage, doubt, and joy. This is the sort of evening at the theatre when you whisper to yourself in that brief still moment before the next impact, “This is spectacularly new, yet I have always known it… because those are human emotions up there and I am a human being.
- Brandon Michael Lowden, musical theatre writer
ARTICLES ABOUT STRANGE FACES
“Telling the story of Asperger’s – with music” (from the Princeton University Bulletin)
“Acting Asperger’s” (from the Nassau Weekly)
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