Menage A Quatre Reviews
Stage and Cinema- Not Recommended
"...Last Saturday, I caught the world premiere of Menage à Quatre, a play that seems to promise a farce but instead delivers a muddled mess. Written by Peter Lefcourt and directed by Ryan O'Connor, the show is a guest production at the Davidson/Valentini Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. The most shocking twist? For a play staged at a queer venue, the story centers exclusively on two straight couples. That's not inherently a problem-unless, as here, the most interesting element happens to be the one gay character."
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
"...What would you do if you found out that your spouse and your longtime best friend were having an affair? What if so happened that your spouse's illicit lover was her own bff as well? These questions and more are posed and answered to terrifically entertaining effect in Peter Lefcourt's Menage À Quatre, the prolific L.A. playwright's best new comedy since 2015's Cafe Society."
ArtsBeatLA- Highly Recommended
"...Director Ryan O'Connor stages the show expertly, getting the most from the small theater space, and Brian Christopher Russell's projection design is superb, adding massively to the show's visual flair. Lefcourt's writing is smart and amusing, having the narrator define all of the group as people who "did yoga and avoided gluten" and having a guilty character blithely try to reframe the affair as "therapeutic infidelity." It's a very funny play, but it doesn't skirt the damaged relationships at its core, which makes one care about the characters more."
Stage Raw- Recommended
"...This production made me feel like a 20-year-old stumbling across an idea as old as a Roman comedy, and imagining that I'd invented it. The idea of hopeless, pointless, endless infidelity resonated in the bones then, just as it does now."