“The concept for this difficult play is that of director George Ferencz who has teamed up with jazz composer Max Roach to create a swirling fulminating 90-minute ensemble piece… Roach’s score brilliantly punctuates the fights, underscoring blows with drumbeats, lending abstraction to the play’s violence, yet keeping its naturalism intact. Without ever seeming to overdo the idea, Ferencz also extends O’Neill’s animal imagery to other characters in the play…lasting impressions, exceptional work.”

“Exceptional, highly creative staging… a sterling production”

“Overall, Ferencz is right…to treat ‘The Hairy Ape’ like a classic or period piece would be to kill it. In Ferencz’s hands, it’s provocative and insistent- loud and raucous and impossible to ignore. The years have not worn it down. It is new.”