Los Angeles Times - Recommended
"...To say that Cavander, an Oxford-educated playwright with a background in world myth, has overreached, seems cavilling. Yet his tragic sprawl packs so much into such a concentrated time frame that it takes on a CliffsNotes simplicity. As an introductory primer to a complicated cycle, it's prime stuff. As a single drama, it's a bit much – a flurry of compounding tragedies that wears thin."
LA Weekly - Somewhat Recommended
"...The other fly comes from conflating the three stories. Though Cavander's prose is smart and lean, it nonetheless merely adds up to hurried variations on the best moments from your favorite Greek debacles. And the gods' intercession, albeit charming, doesn't provide the intended connecting tissue. It's more like bubble wrap."
Broadway World - Recommended
"...Playwright Kenneth Cavander's found the ideal collaborator in The Antaeus Company for finessing his original two night's worth of performances into its current smartly-written, easily comprehensible, two-and-a-half hour narrative."
The Hollywood Reporter - Recommended
"...It's not even the climax before the intermission, merely the triggering tragedy for generations of accursed fates, an epic night of hubris, blindness and downfall that nevertheless manages to rally, in Kenneth Cavander's decidedly reupholstered version, to a hopeful conclusion-so long as one neglects to remember the succeeding millenia of the masculine destructive pursuit of power. It may not be exactly true to the classical vision, whatever that might have been, but it appropriates those insights to make splendid dramatic sparks in a spellbinding production."
Stage Scene LA - Recommended
"...Spending time with the Ancients has rarely if ever been as exhilarating as it is in Kenneth Cavander's The Curse Of Oedipus, an Antaeus Company World Premiere which proves that even the deadly dullest of theatrical genres, Greek Tragedy, can end up the opposite of boring when given fresh new life by the right creative team."
StageHappenings.com - Recommended
"...So see this! (Either cast; they're both extraordinary.)"
Examiner - Recommended
"...This is a show that deals squarely with many of the darkest human issues as well as the unique qualities of the ancient Greek Gods. It is absolutely not a musical nor a comedy, it is a rich and deep dramatic presentation bolstered by a superb cast; well actually two casts but I only had the privilege of seeing one of them."
Total Theater - Recommended
"...Stangl has directed her cast to speak in declamatory fashion; that style combined with the insistent drumming makes, over the long haul, for a certain monotony. But that is more than balanced by the play's power and poetry, and by its skillful use of ritual and myth. There are also ferocious and hair-raising moments, especially when Dionysus (Stoney Westmoreland) unleashes an earthquake by way of punishing the mortals for their rebellious behavior. All in all, this production by an Equity-waiver company is an impressive achievement."
Culture Spot LA - Recommended
"...Writer Kenneth Cavander and Director Casey Stangl have distilled the drama from several ancient sources and given us an all-new version of the classic tragedy that is worthy of the word."
LifeInLA - Recommended
"...As the play proceeded I attempted to concentrate on the other actors in the performance. It was difficult because of Teiresias' silent and frozen figure. I had to remind myself that this is a play, I am in a roomful of people, and I'm safe. Yet, I dared not look directly at Teiresias out of absolute fear. That feeling is the thrill and majesty of theatre. It should be entertaining, dynamic, and inspiring."
