“...with its mix of high-flying poetry, street-corner obscenities, hip-hop lingo and almost ritualized pain and violence, Corthron gives us our own very recognizable tragedy in a play that detonates with tremendous force. A few characters in oversize hip-hop jeans and hooded sweat shirts lurk in the shadows of a ghetto street. Designers Jacqueline and Richard Penrod (collaborating with lighting master Jaymi Lee Smith, costume designer Cybele Moon and sound designer Chris Johnson) have created a powerfully bleak set of metal enclosures that seamlessly suggest housing project apartments,...”

Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

“Jaymi Lee Smith's appropriately shadowed lighting, peppered throughout the 12 scene format, Chris Johnson's haunting sound design, coupled with Cybele Moon's aptly rendered costuming of oversized jeans and hooded sweatshirts produced an impressive overall technical design.”

Gay Chicago Magazine
After Dark Award