2007-2008 Season

Romeo & Juliet, February-March 2008.

The Seattle Times
by Nancy Worssam
March 5, 2008
...splendidly produced...[Strickland's is] a wonderful performance that gives vitality to words that are so familiar they have become clichés.
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Seattlest
by Michael Van Baker
March 1, 2008
...superb, edge-of-your-seat stuff ...hectic, breathless!
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Seattle PI
by Joe Adcock
March 4, 2008
...urgent and sexy and innocent all at once.
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Seattle Weekly
by Tim Appelo
March 19, 2008
...more ambitiously conceived than most fringe theater, and more accomplished.
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Seattle Gay News
by Miryam Gordon
March 7, 2008
[Strickland] is adorable.
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CLOUD 9, October-November 2007.

The Seattle Times
by Misha Berson
Monday, October 26, 2007
...Churchill's lusty, seriocomic exploration of class, race, family dynamics and erotic identity, is selling nicely.
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The Seattle PI
Five Things To Do Saturday
Monday, October 26, 2007
The issues couldn't be more serious, the treatment couldn't be funnier.
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Seattlest
by Dan Gonsiorowski
Monday, October 24, 2007
No one hates a farce like Seattlest hates a farce, but if the first act of Cloud 9 tells us anything it's that Seattlest may not hate a farce as much as we like to think.
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The Seattle PI
by Joe Adcock
Monday, October 22, 2007
...the Balagan Cloud 9 is a welcome reminder of theater's ability to clarify reality in uniquely delightful ways.
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Seattle Gay News
by Miryam Gordon
Monday, October 26, 2007
...big laughs, with broad farce, performed sincerely but with a wink at the audience.
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Seattle Weekly
by Tim Appelo
Monday, October 24, 2007
...sharp, droll, and, in director Mark Pinkosh's hands, alive.
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2006-2007 Season

THE TRANSYLVANIAN CLOCKWORKS, October 2006.

The Seattle Times
Review by Tom Keogh
Monday, October 16, 2006
sharp, probing and intensely erotic. This is a "Dracula" that teases shadowy intimacy and obsession...
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The Stranger
Review by Lindy West
Thursday, October 12, 2006
...a blood-soaked, eroticized Victorian vampire story.
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The Seattle Times - Critic's Pick!
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The gripping production is the first from the new Balagan Theatre Company.

Review from an audience member, Five Stars *****!
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A DANGEROUS AGE, November-December, 2006

The Seattle PI
Review by Joe Adcock
Thursday, November 30, 2006
[S]killfully written and acted...it is THE ONLY SHOW IN TOWN.
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The Seattle PI - BEST BET!
Thursday, November 24, 2006

The Stranger
Review by Brendan Kiley
Thursday, November 30, 2006
[S]weet and sad... overshadowed by the comedy of the unexpected courtship and Pinkosh's charm and power as a performer...
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Seattlest
Review by Dan Gonsiorowski
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Are they really as good as it seems or is it Seattlest's imagination?...[R]eally powerful...serious, and funny.
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The Seattle Times
Review by Misha Berson
Friday, December 1, 2006
graphic, angry ...it's hard not to be moved by Hamilton's urgent juxtaposition of love and war.
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Review from 3 audience members: Five Stars, *****!
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TITUS ANDRONICUS, January-February 2007

The Seattle Times
Review by Misha Berson
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Hail Rome! And howdy pardner! Balagan's [Titus] is plenty bloody, but rarely a bore.
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Seattlest
Review by Dan Gonsiorowski
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Ryan Higgins is a sick fuck.
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The Seattle PI
Review by Joe Adcock
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Hollywood slasher movies have yet to match William Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus."
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Review from an audience member, Four Stars ****!
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THE EQUATION, February 2007

Seattlest
Review by Michael van Baker
Friday, February 2, 2007
...if you're going to see just one play this year -- and you want one that locates the roots of modern-day conspicuous consumption in the hand-to-mouth neediness of the Depression -- dig in.
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THE SPINNING, May 2007

The Seattle Weekly
Review by Richard Morin
Friday, June 1, 2007
[The Spinning] unleashes a spectacle of sex, sin, and sadomasochism, all in the service of a basic tale about the primal power of love.
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The Stranger
Review by Brendan Kiley
Friday, June 1, 2007
The story concerns lovers manipulated by a pack of kinky Cupids...wear[ing] leather and rubber and occasionally flog[ing] each other. Read the whole article.

The Seattle PI
Review by Joe Adcock
Friday, June 1, 2007
boy meets girl, boy loses girl...girl chains boy up...flogs him with two quirts, [and] applies painful devices to sensitive parts of his person... Read the whole article.

Seattlest
Review by Dan Gonsoriowski
Friday, June 1, 2007
Seattlest hopes one of Groll's gigantic pecs inspires your pending love-making to take a turn towards the dark side. Read the whole article.


SPACE, September 2007
Featured on the Theatre Puget Sound stage during Seattle's Music and Arts Festival, Bumbershoot

The Seattle PI
by Joe Adcock
The live theater contributions [to Bumbershoot] enhance the full-service aesthetic cred of an annual "arts festival" that can otherwise look like nothing more than a vast rock/pop/world music marathon... Balagan Theatre offers a new work that features futuristic antagonists/protagonists. Read the whole article.