Washington Theater Review
Review by Sam Thielman
". . . Martin McDonagh’s cheerfully horrifying play . . . manages to sometimes disgust, sometimes amuse, and always enthrall, as the bitter, decades-old war between mother and daughter rages to its conclusion. . . . Linda High brilliantly reveals Mag as one by turns domineering and pitifully weak; here aged, lonely, and sympathetic; there twisting the knife in her daughter’s back . . .[Nanna] Ingvarsson is so explosively chemical as Maureen that it’s an outright joy to see her find love . . . the actors in the Keegan’s production force us to love these people at their most heartless. The show is expertly directed by Mark A. Rhea. . . Meanness and the pathos meet to the benefit of both, and produce something strange, and painful, and ultimately worth seeing.”
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