The Niceties

by Eleanor Burgess

Huntington, MTC, McCarter, The Geffen

Boston Globe, Dan AuCoin

"directed at full throttle by Kimberly Senior in a world-premiere Huntington Theatre Company production"


The Trentonian, L.A. Parker

"Opening night for an onion-layered play by Eleanor Burgess and directed by Kimberly Senior turned Berlind Theatre into a social think tank as the two-actor cast produced an evening of conflict, near resolution then fell apart at the seams."




US1, US1 Staff

"Senior's production is taut and blessed with a tempo that gives both reasonable conversation and bitter enmity a chance to register. Senior's clean staging leaves room for all that Burgess packs into 'The Niceties' to come to light. It strikes the right notes to allow dialogue to do its job by never letting it seem as if the characters are playing verbal ping-pong, serving up a thought to be met with a rejoinder."


Broadway World, Sarah Vander Schaaff

"Director Kimberly Senior, as she did with DISGRACED, explores the revelation of character and strength in dire-and familiar-circumstances."


Phindie, Neal Zoren

"Kimberly Senior keeps masterful control of the action, timing outbursts and giving reason time to prevail before chaos is presented into the voice of someone emphatically but unemotionally reading a manifesto"






Set:

Cameron Anderson

Lights:

D.M. Wood

Sound:

Elisheba Ittoop

Costumes:

Kara Harmon