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"This well-choreographed Chicago premiere strikes just the right balance, engaging us on multiple levels without veering toward either academic or twee. That’s largely thanks to a pitch-perfect cast. Krebsbach is dead-on as the confident, tweed-jacketed Prologue; he’s also convincingly shell-shocked as Roberts’s snappish, harrowed Epilogue gains control. As the lovers, Holzfeind and Wedoff have terrific chemistry as a pair of charming, credible open wounds. Watt and the superbly funny Marx provide support as self-absorbed and self-aware doctor and nurse. FOUR STARS" (Read the full review here)
—Kris Vire, Time Out Chicago
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"Chicago audiences currently can catch an earlier work called "The Flu Season," in a smart little production from Black Sheep Productions. It is a play full of sly humor and... like "Thom Pain," it is the playwriting equivalent of a magician who yanks the tablecloth off the table, leaving the plates and glasses unmoved... The cast (all quite good; Darrelyn Marx's nurse is a very canny piece of acting) is fully at ease with the stop-go rhythms..."
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
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"This gentle, chilly, heart-rending play, about a hospital love story that is continually re-edited by an onstage Prologue and Epilogue, is not just "daring" or "experimental." It's both truly entertaining and truly new."
—Centerstage
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"As riveting as the actors are, the real star of this play is the caged panther of a script. Ambivalent and rife with wordplay, "The Flu Season" is at once manic and strangely contained. In director Jeremy Wechsler's able hands, the play thrives... MUST SEE" (Read the full review here)
—Sarah Terez Rosenblum, Centerstage
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"This is a rare chance to see the work of one of the more talked-about young playwrights of the new century."
—Chicago Decider
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"Matt Holzfeind and Alice Wedoff subtly produce sparks... The work creeps up on you and leaves you thinking about it long after you leave the theatre. Recommended."
—Tom Williams, Chicagocritic
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