"Sometimes there’s a show that not only leaves you at a loss for words but gives every indication that loss was the whole idea. Hence the world premiere of Krispy Kritters in the Scarlett Night, the first offering from Cutting Ball Theater’s new resident playwright and the last show of their 2013 season. Is it good? Oh my, yes. But explaining why, in terms that will make anything close to sense, is like trying to explain what makes sugar sweet.If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Jean-Paul Sartre, John Waters and Rob Zombie got hammered and wrote a script together that none of them could remember the next day...well, let’s face it, you’re an odd duck."
-Adam Brinklow, San Francisco Magazine, Edge Media Network |
"[...] Saito broadens the discussion to give the main characters more human dimensions. A father-son relationship develops between Rumsfeld and Douglass, with the older man seeking a substitute for the son he feels has been lost to addiction and Douglass distressed about the white father he never knew (who sold him as soon as he could). [...] Saito is particularly good at incorporating the very different rhetorical styles of Douglass and Rumsfeld, and drawing similarities between their battles for freedom in their own terms."
- Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle "Just over 90 minutes long, the play is marvelously fanciful in the lengths to which it intertwines the two characters’ stories. Far from the usual glancing fictional encounter in which two historical figures compare notes and then go about their separate business, “Mount Misery” embeds Douglass and Rumsfeld deep in each other’s lives with tragicomic consequences, and history may never be the same again." - Sam Hurwitt, Marin Independent Journal |