Theatre For One review: Intimate setting makes for wonderful experience at Cork Midsummer
The Irish Examiner
★★★★★
“Theatre for One is an exhilarating half-hour experience.” — Marjorie Brennan
Theatre review: Up close and personal with Theatre for One at Cork Midsummer Festival
The Irish Examiner
★★★★★
“It is a privilege to experience such breadth of acting and writing talent in the space of half an hour. What is initially a discomfiting intimacy ends up being exhilarating; in an increasingly atomised world, one is reminded of the eternal truth of EM Forster’s famous epigraph: Only Connect.” — Marjorie Brennan
BFPL Presents A Conversation with Theatre for One and OpenEndedGroup
A conversation with Christine Jones, Jenny Koons, Marc Downie, and Paul Kaiser about their exploration and creation of the digital platform
Four Intimate Screen Encounters (One From Far Away)
The New York Times, Critic’s Pick
“You could say each sweet morsel, delivered with charged intimacy in this time of isolation, is like a truffle: small, delicious, refined — and over in an instant. But I like to think of each piece like a ship in a bottle, presenting an exquisite piece of architecture within the narrow confines of the form.” — Maya Phillips
It’s Just You and Me and the Modem in ‘Here We Are’
The New York Times, Critic’s Pick
“Enhanced by terrific acting, you feel seen in a way that has been too often absent these six months — and maybe longer. Intimacy in the live theater is always touch-and-go. On display alone in our homes, we are much more seen than usual.” — Jesse Green
How Are Audiences Adapting to the Age of Virtual Theatre?
The New Yorker
“Moments of gently heightened language took me out of, then put me right back into, the action of the play—and made me feel its artifice while being convinced of its deeper reality, all at once.“ – Vinson Cunningham
Theatre for One Wants You to Sit Up Straight and Pay Attention
New York Magazine/Vulture
“You sit up straight and lean in and listen hard….like tensing a muscle we might not get to fully use again until sometime next year.” — Helen Shaw
Inside ‘Theatre for One,’ Where You’re the Only Audience Member
The Daily Beast
“We held each other’s gaze for an uncanny moment. It was the closest I’ve ever felt to a performer, and to a writer’s story, in the same room or otherwise.” — Naveen Kumar
Theatre for One mounts free solo plays for solo audiences
Time Out New York
“The virtual series offers moving one-on-one theater experiences with live actors. Have the past few months left you starved for human connection and craving a little intimate personal attention? If so, Theatre for One: Here We Are may be just the thing.” — Adam Feldman
Cork Midsummer festival review – theatre for all … and one
The Guardian
★★★★★
“The six pieces become an urgent antidote to watching the world through the mediation of a small screen. Cumulatively, they create an exhilarating sense of aliveness.” — Helen Meany
5 Short Plays , Up-Close and Unsettled, Purposely
New York Times, Critic’s Pick
"...boils the live experience down to its essence..." —Elisabeth Vincentelli
Is It Smaller Than a Black Box? A Visit to I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am
New york Magazine/Vulture
"...’Immersive’ doesn’t begin to describe this." — Jesse Green
‘I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am,’ Where Theater Meets Confessional
New york Times, Critics’ Pick
"What Theater for One does is...put our relationship with those on stage under a magnifying lens of self-consciousness." — Ben Brantley
close Encounters of the theatrical kind
the New Yorker
"Why crave the attention of multitudes when the most we can ask for is to be seen—fully, if momentarily—by just one person?” — Michael Schulman
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