Reviews

Richard Foreman Recommendation

I believe these young artists show immense promise, and I believe they can make an important contribution to American Theater.

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Theatre Is Easy
Bail Out The Musical

“Best irony in an off-off Broadway theater.”
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Broadway World
Rooftops: The Plot Chickens
Rooftops

…Rooftops is a very good play. Set in a dystopic future where debtors are forced into sexual slavery, it’s intriguing, funny, and chilling, and features some wonderful performances…
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New York Times
User Reviews
Rooftops

A brilliantly executed performance of one of the best plays I’ve seen in years! Karly Maurer’s writing is both audacious and fresh, and the acting delivers on all levels! Rooftops is a daring commentary of Modern’s Man political genius that speaks to today’s ever pressing realities. A must see show put on by an unbelievable team of dedicated and talented performers! Five Stars to Kimberlea Kressal for directing! Five Stars to the Wreckio Ensemble! Five Stars to the Crew! Five Stars to the Actors!
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Irish Theatre Magazine
The Ladies Aide Society…

In 2008, Dublin art gallery ThisIsNotAShop collaborated with New York based theatre company Wreckio Ensemble who devised The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To A Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art And Culture for performance in the gallery. The performance space was treated as vital input into the creation and content of the production. The production unfolded in the form of a classical myth.

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News from AmericanTheater Web
Afraid of Where The Country’s Heading? So are These Playwrights
Gravediggers

One assumes that this is Gurney himself warning about Americans’ passivity of late, and, thus, by extension, imagines that he would be a supporter of a new show playing at the Ontological Theater, a production of the youthful Wreckio Ensemble, Gravediggers.

In this work written and directed by Karly Maurer, the audience is transported to a barren landscape reminiscent (courtesy of scenic designer Dechelle Damien) of that found in Beckett’s “Godot”. In an environment filled with huge cement stone blocks and a barren tree – except for the huge red growth that hangs from spindly, finger-like branches, two government lackeys are in charge of disposing of corpses by throwing them into a vast pit. The dead bodies are the casualties of an interminable war that has gripped their country.

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The New York Sun
Attendant Concerns
Wrestling Porcelain

In Wreckio Ensemble’s group devised “Wrestling Porcelain”, a lonely bathroom attendant rules over one such bathroom, witnessing the women who have the luxury to come and go – always leaving her with a mess to clean up.

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nytheatre.com
New York International Fringe Festival Reviews
The Corner

Entering PS122’s upstairs performing space from the brightness of noontime Sunday, I am thrust into “a vast emptiness… a place with no space,” save for four spotlighted, outrageously styled characters engaged in physical non-sequiturs to the wailing of Tom Waits. Welcome to the obscurity, ambiguity, and absurdity of The Corner, the New York debut of writer/director Michelle Diaz and her company, Wreckio. Hi, hello, Mr. Beckett… Hello, hi, Mr. Ionesco… it’s Ms. Michelle Diaz knocking on your proverbial door.

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Palm Beach Post
Nimble Cast Makes Gint a Homecoming Success
Gint

Good theater need not be about spectacle. Better still is a performance based on the more powerful resource of the audience’s imagination. That point is made by a financially struggling, but talent-rich New York company called Wreckio Enemble Theater Company, which opened a three-day run at West Palm Beach’s Dreyfoos School of the Arts Friday evening with Romulus Linney’s GINT.

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