“Pivotal… Adjmi’s brilliance is to use trashy vernacular speech
to allude to the way history trashes us.” – The New Yorker
“Mr. Adjmi has set himself the task of translating this gilded-cage life into the contemporary language of the spoiled and empty-headed rich, with… Marie sounding rather like the pampered teenage heroine of the movie 'Clueless.' He does so with the empathy that has always leavened his politically judgmental plays… Mr. Adjmi is one of several adventurous young playwrights now… who rather than avoiding clichés are embracing them to find out what enduring truths and lies still lurk beneath their threadbare exteriors.” – The New York Times, Read More
“David Adjmi’s jagged yet elegant historical riff… This tough-minded play doesn’t offer a middle path… Adjmi complicates the satire by imbuing his doomed protagonist with intellectual vibrancy and genuine compassion.” Four Stars, Critic’s Pick – Time Out New York, Read More
“From Valley Girl comedy (‘the linzer tarts omigod’) to mad-scene finale… David Adjmi’s [Marie Antoinette is a] marvelous, disturbing, revisionist take.” – New York Magazine
“In Adjmi's work, even the most innocent-seeming sweetmeats have bitter fillings – brutality, acid, blood… Macarons cede to just deserts, gowns to rags, quips to insane ramblings, gilded dream to caustic nightmare. And still the degradation continues. We are powerless to stop the violence, and what we may have once desired we now deplore. Or, Adjmi asks, do we?” – Village Voice, Read More
“David Adjmi’s pivotal work… he resembles artists as diverse as Luis Bunuel and Rainer Werner Fassbinder… Adjmi’s brilliance is to use trashy vernacular speech to allude to the way history trashes us.” – The New Yorker, Read More
ON BREAKING CHARACTER
Too Much Cake: Inside Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Production of MARIE ANTOINETTE
by Leela Singh
March 11, 2015
High Energy, And Higher Passionby Courtney Kochuba
January 16, 2015