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"Anyone clued into the Prague expat theatre scene... will know that new company Theater Akanda is well on its way to establishing a unique and distinctive performance style....For the 2009 Prague Fringe Festival, Akanda presents Rada’s latest creation (story by Rada and Fritz) Katatonika “a rock n roll film noir theatre experience.”....The ‘film noir” comes courtesy mainly (in) Sarah Woodworth’s costume for the gangster Don, Curt Matthew (looking splendid in hat and gloves; wielding with gleeful coldness a particularly nasty looking sword-cane)."
-Guy Roberts,
Fringe Review: Katatonika, Prague.tv
"A collaborative effort of a quintet of actresses who call themselves The Five Lesbian Brothers, The Secretaries is a side-splitting, chaotic adventure in broad comedy (taken several ways) that revels in the ridiculous and dares you not to join in its fitful laughter....Tori Meyer’s raucous, pulsating sound design is a major contributor to the arched mood of the piece, and Sarah Woodworth’s costumes accentuate the attractive ladies’ assets, so to speak."
-Mark Bretz
The Secretaries, The Ladue News
Sarah Strange deserves special props in this scene as the production's costume designer, dressing each specter according to his or her specific sin. Except for the visions (historical or supernatural) and the modern clothes of Mephistopheles and Lucifer, Strange dresses the play in late 19th century fashions, with work-a-day clothes for the servants, frock coats and vests for the academics, and military uniforms for the rulers. She is also responsible for two of the show's most effective illusions: Mephistopheles undressing into the fully dressed Helen, and Faustus's descending into hell. For the latter, those gesticulating sheets serving as Lucifer's demons move onto the stage and surround Faustus, completely obscuring him from the audience as he screams in tormented pain. His cries fade, the demons disperse, and Faustus has vanished. A murmur of disbelief ripples through the audience, and it's not until the curtain call when the demons disrobe to take their bows that people realize what had become of Goldwasser.
-Eric Minton
Dr. Faustus, Shakespeareances.com