Perfect Pie
by Judith Thompson
FALL 2024
NewCityStage:
"The acting is universally top-notch, pulling us into the lives of these once-intimate friends who have developed in such diametrically different ways."
NewCityStage
"Crisply directed by Maddie Hillock, and movingly and believably portrayed by Gwydion's four-person cast, "Perfect Pie" is a play that quietly yet implacably gets under one's skin."
THIS IS OUR YOUTH
by Kenneth Lonergan
FALL 2024
Chicago Reader:
"The relationships are tempestuous and physical, played with full body commitment by the small cast - Kenneth Lonergan's 1996 drama feels intimate and ray with Gwydion."
Buzz Center Stage:
"Though I saw the 2014 version, which starred Michael Cera and Kieran Caulkin, I liked this version much, much better."
WAITING FOR LEFTY
by Clifford Odets
WINTER 2024
Chicago Reader:
"the unbridled passion and commitment of the cast carries the hour-long show along in an exhilarating wave ... So much in this play feels depressingly timely. Yet Kennedy’s production, which fleshes out these working people in small telling details without falling into the trap of hectoring or turning them into cardboard victims, also feels oddly hopeful about the possibility of collective action".
CAN'T PAY? WON'T PAY!
by Dario Fo
WINTER 2023
New City Stage:
"Gwydion made a luminous local debut a couple of months ago with Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story.” This production reveals the fledgling company’s limitations—but also its theatrical ambition and sheer guts. The intention here is a good one, and if the execution doesn’t quite match, that can be chalked up to experience. I look forward to Gwydion’s next offering."
ZOO STORY
by Edward Albee
FALL 2023
New City Stage:
"With this production, the small, low-profile Gwydion Theatre Company—which relocated this year from the West Coast to Chicago and is putting down roots here—demonstrates that it’s willing and able to mount thoughtful, ambitious drama that puts larger theaters to shame. No doubt about it, this is a company to watch."
