Possum Carcass Reviews
Los Angeles Times- Not Recommended
"...Although it dutifully mirrors Chekhov's plot in the soaring ambitions and earthbound struggles of present-day artistic types, what dooms this six-character reduction is its systematic abandonment of the subtextual layers that make the original so compelling."
LA Weekly- Somewhat Recommended
"...Alina Phelan directs a production that hits the jokes on the head, so that there's very little subtextual comedy, providing us with little work to do. The Arkadina character (Lauren Letherer), here a soap opera star, insists, in parody, that a play should not make the audience work at all. Well, here we have just that."
Stage Scene LA- Recommended
"...You don't have to know The Seagull to enjoy David Bucci's Possum Carcass, though those who've read the Chekhov masterpiece may well get the biggest kick out of seeing how the 21st-century playwright has served up Seagull (make that Possum) for today's audiences. In either case, it's almost imposs(um)ible not to have great fun at Theatre Of NOTE's latest (if only slightly unpolished) gem."
ArtsInLA- Somewhat Recommended
"...As gifted as director Alina Phelan is, and as inspiring as Bucci's shrewd and irreverent adaptation seems to be, Possum Carcass is not entirely successful."