The fabulous reviews just keep coming! This is from Chad Jones over at TheatreDogs.net.
Excerpt: “Director Ellen Sebastian Chang mines a great deal of humor from Nottage’s script, and she has a superb cast at her disposal. Hall is just about perfect as Undine – brittle but deeply felt. When she addresses the audience, you adore her immediately, and in spite of her sharp edges, you really begin to feel for her.”
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Excerpt:Margo Hall is a propulsive force as the swaggering hardass publicist Undine, first seen pacing and berating her assistant as she tries to line up celebrities for a fallopian blockage benefit. Cynical and sarcastic, she’s someone who’s obviously hard to take for the people around her, but she’s a lot of fun to take this journey with because she’s accustomed to giving s***, not taking it, and doesn’t mince words about it.
This review is from Leslie Katz over at the San Francisco Examiner:
“Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is closing its 30th season in top form at Fort Mason’s Southside Theatre with a top-flight production of “Fabulation,” a sharp, funny and unapologetically unsentimental story about a self-centered woman who finds love and family only as a result of losing money and power.”
Here is an excerpt: “Margo Hall clearly loves the character she plays, from Undine’s stylish arrogance in Manhattan to the woeful moment when she drags herself back, all the way back, to her blue collar relatives in the Walt Whitman public housing projects of Brooklyn, where they remember her as ‘Sharona.’ … There are many funny moments, cleverly staged and wonderfully acted, as Undine gets back in touch with her Sharona.”
This review, entitled “Margo Hall leads stellar cast in Lorraine Hansberry’s Fabulation“ ran in the San Jose Mercury News, The Oakland Tribune, The Contra Costa Times, and other Bay Area newspapers.
Here is a quotation:“Director Ellen Sebastian Chang keeps this runaway train of a story running beautifully, thanks both to her skill and the wonderful cast she has playing any number of roles.”
The first review of Fabulation is out, and it’s great!
Here is an excerpt:
“Nottage’s depiction of the Brooklyn family Undine left behind and her adventures is full of eye-opening surprises. Sebastian Chang smartly orchestrates Undine’s emotional ride, and her staging of a hellish social services office is particularly acute.”
We are getting closer and closer to the opening of Fabulation and we were just featured in the Arts Monthly. Be sure to get tickets to this wonderful show before it sells out!
Yesterday the San Francisco Chronicle published an interview with Lynn Nottage the writer of Fabulation talking about what inspired her to make this wonderful and prize winning play.
