Furgue Reviews
Los Angeles Times- Recommended
"...The striking innovation here is in transposing the musical principles of fugue into narrative. Parallel elements of the three stories are underscored by impressively choreographed simultaneous delivery of words, phrases and, on occasion, orgasms."
LA Theatre Review- Recommended
"...It is the movement, the timing and the brilliant staging of sex, suicide and slaughter that make the production extraordinary. It's very much a directorial coup."
Stage Scene LA- Recommended
"...A trio of classical music composers, each involved in a deadly love triangle, find their lives interwoven fugue-style-and quite stylishly indeed-in Fugue, Tommy Smith's mesmerizing meditation on music and madness (and musicians driven mad by love), the latest from Echo Theater Company and one of the most provocative evenings of theater you're likely to experience for some time to come."
ArtsInLA- Somewhat Recommended
"...But Smith goes too far in trying to create a structural fugue: having the characters speak the same lines at the same time to evidence their common longings and struggles. Even if the actors could manage to get their rhythms and inflections perfectly synchronized, the effect is totally distancing. Thus this work emphasizes form. So while the characters experience heart-wrenching events, the audience remains almost constantly aware of the architecture imposed on the storytelling."
Total Theater- Recommended
"...Director Chris Fields manages to orchestrate this fiendishly difficult play with much finesse and skill, even though he has chosen to stage it on a near-bare stage. But his actors deliver superb performances and he has been aided immeasurably by Michael Mullen's lavish and evocative costumes."
Showmag- Recommended
"...Fugue is an adult work which demands concentration while in the theater and may haunt you after the lights go up."