At Windy City Times, Jonathan Abarbanel reviews Breathing Corpses.Here's the good parts (why read anything else?):
"Breathing Corpses is grim—although sprinkled with quirky humor—but it's never tragic, ...[Laura Wade's] crisp dialogue technique shines.
Fortunately, Steep is deep in talented actors guided by the experienced director Robin Witt. Scene Three is the prime showcase, in which Lucy Carapetyan and Jonathan Edwards portray an attractive young couple bound by mutually inflicted physical violence, both sexual and asexual. The fury of their self-centered characters is both terrifying and titillating. Julia Siple opens and closes the play as a whimsical hotel housekeeper a bit too fascinated by the bodies she finds in the beds. In the final scene she meets a live one at last, yet despite their flirtation the play closes on an ambiguous note: Is her glow of happiness one of joy or merely excitement and potential danger?
Marcus Stephens' beige-and-yellow scenic design creates four distinct playing areas lined up across the wide but shallow stage, surrounded by corrugated steel panels—a la storage lockers—to suggest the constricting box-like rooms referenced by several characters. It's good-looking...
The company use rather good British accents...
If you must read the entire review, you can see it here.
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