THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
REVIEWS
PCPA THEATERFEST
Spring, 1998
I’ve breathed in some heady theatrical steam at PCPA, been lifted to many a peak moment - but the season’s finale tops them all. As the last lights went down I felt a “hunchback” sized lump in my throat, and struggled to swallow it so I could stand and applaud. ... The new adaptation of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” is full and long and majestic like its cathedral - and as Victor Hugo first wrote it. ...The show is no Disney frolic. It’s not for the little ones. No, this Notre Dame looms over full fledged adult obsession, innocence, debauchery, and compassion. If you hope for all these things in one night of theatre, be advised that ”Hunchback” won’t let you down.
Diane Urbani
Santa Maria Times
...an intense, piercing exploration of man’s descent into the hellish regions of his own psyche... a struggle between spirit and flesh that is stunning in it’s emotional impact... Most encouragingly Morey’s “Hunchback” succeeds in wrestling back Hugo’s work from the dregs of Disneydom, and is well worth a drive through the central coast.
Donna Mulgrew
Backstage West
...a powerful epic... this play is both a morality play and an epiphany. While the morality plays presented in medieval Europe often led to salvation, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” being a modern morality play, leads to harrowing despair.
Billy Houck
The New Times
PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY
Victor Hugo would be well pleased......a dark spectacle of evil passion...
Sander Sharp
Utah Daily Chronicle
...triumphs on nearly every level....
Ivan Lincoln
Deseret News
Spring, 1998
I’ve breathed in some heady theatrical steam at PCPA, been lifted to many a peak moment - but the season’s finale tops them all. As the last lights went down I felt a “hunchback” sized lump in my throat, and struggled to swallow it so I could stand and applaud. ... The new adaptation of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” is full and long and majestic like its cathedral - and as Victor Hugo first wrote it. ...The show is no Disney frolic. It’s not for the little ones. No, this Notre Dame looms over full fledged adult obsession, innocence, debauchery, and compassion. If you hope for all these things in one night of theatre, be advised that ”Hunchback” won’t let you down.
Diane Urbani
Santa Maria Times
...an intense, piercing exploration of man’s descent into the hellish regions of his own psyche... a struggle between spirit and flesh that is stunning in it’s emotional impact... Most encouragingly Morey’s “Hunchback” succeeds in wrestling back Hugo’s work from the dregs of Disneydom, and is well worth a drive through the central coast.
Donna Mulgrew
Backstage West
...a powerful epic... this play is both a morality play and an epiphany. While the morality plays presented in medieval Europe often led to salvation, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” being a modern morality play, leads to harrowing despair.
Billy Houck
The New Times
PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY
Victor Hugo would be well pleased......a dark spectacle of evil passion...
Sander Sharp
Utah Daily Chronicle
...triumphs on nearly every level....
Ivan Lincoln
Deseret News