MaryKate Glenn
press & reviews
"Superb."
-Sara Holdren for Vulture & New York Magazine
"The cast . . . includes Hen (MaryKate Glenn in a giant chicken suit), who watches her last chick, the 12th of 12, get turned into stew. That surreal barnyard character is not, of course, Chekhov’s. Why is she there?
Hen introduces an image of death — unceasing, voracious, war-machine death — into a story that’s usually about frustration. Her oversize, Chagallian image also unleashes darker energies in Krymov’s production." -Helen Shaw, chief theater critic for The New York Times
photo by Marina Levitskaya
"The horror-Greek in its scale for the hen, whom Glenn nails as both a comic and a tragic figure-is at the heart of this Uncle Vanya's manipulation of the theatrical mirror."
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"There is no theatre like Krymov's-a living pop-up book, its visual worlds unfold and collapse and remake themselves, a cycle of creation and destruction, mess and coalescence, happening in real time." -Sara Holdren, theater critic for New York Magazine and Vulture
photo by Kirill Simakov
"A fabulous, slightly fear-induced, five stars for exit strategy's How to Win a Gameshow."
-Susan Sloan for The SMU Reviews
photo by Jed McMullen
"Glenn is impressive. With nimble improv skills that allow her to tickle an audience but also shut down interactions that threaten to drive the show off track."
-Eden El-Hashahar for Ed Fringe Review
"Profoundly brilliant and hilariously unsettling . . . A blue-haired, benevolent dictator of a host [MaryKate Glenn] issues instructions in a soothing voice that makes every off-kilter request sound safe." -Aisha Josiah for fringe biscuit magazine
"The entire production crew responds brilliantly to how contestant and audience member alike interact with the show, from the host’s [MaryKate Glenn] questions using awkward tension brilliantly . . . to the floating camera crews circling each game, making sure you always feel watched." -Ewen Woods for Broadway Baby