WNEP Theater - Wise Blood

Originally performed at the Chopin Theatre
Adapted and directed by Jen Ellison

"...an unconscious, visionary quality. With four-part gospel harmonies, subtly unreal touches (did that gorilla just curse? Is that guy slapping his ass for percussion?) and bubbling energy, it feels not like an adaptation of the novel so much as the dream you have just after reading it...a show of remarkable aesthetic wholeness awash with detail, giving her very capable ensemble a fully realized universe in which to come alive...as smart as the novel it comes from, as fun and as beautiful...
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED..."
-- NewCity

"...Flannery O'Connor said Wise Blood was to be read with zest, and Jen Ellison's stage adaptation of the 1952 novel has captured that spiritual gusto...Brian McCaskill...is effectively brooding...Spirituals sung by the ensemble add depth to an already rich soundscape..."
-- Chicago Reader

	"...an unconscious, visionary quality. With four-part gospel harmonies, subtly unreal touches (did that gorilla just curse? Is that guy slapping his ass for percussion?) and bubbling energy, it feels not like an adaptation of the novel so much as the dream you have just after reading it...a show of remarkable aesthetic wholeness awash with detail, giving her very capable ensemble a fully realized universe in which to come alive...as smart as the novel it comes from, as fun and as beautiful... HIGHLY RECOMMENDED..." -- NewCity

	"...Flannery O'Connor said Wise Blood was to be read with zest, and Jen Ellison's stage adaptation of the 1952 novel has captured that spiritual gusto...Brian McCaskill...is effectively brooding...Spirituals sung by the ensemble add depth to an already rich soundscape..." -- Chicago Reader