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Unleashed! The Secret Lives of
White House Pets:
“Sometimes you're lucky.
Sometimes you're good.
Sometimes you're both.
Good, because Allyson Currin's script manages just the right giggle-inducing
puns and chortle-inducing political references to keep the 7-to-10-year-old
set and their parents engaged.”
- The Washington Post
Church of the Open Mind:
“Washington is no stranger to new plays by local writers,
but it’s hard to remember the time two such scripts opened
almost simultaneously in worthy productions…Currin, the author
of several plays and also an actress around town, is a natural with
breezy comedy. But it approaches gale force when she uses laughs
in evoking the ways in which only family members can hurt each other…”
- The Washington Post
“Fascinating on a number of levels, Charter’s production
of this verbal fireworks play leaves you with the I’m-so-glad-I-came
feeling…Keith Bridges (director) keeps the fireworks sparking,
but gives the audience time to catch its breath at appropriate moments.
That’s a good thing for there are always sparks yet to fly
and you wouldn’t want to miss them while pondering the bon
mots and pithy points that went before.”
- Potomac Stages
Learning Curves:
“Allyson Currin’s plays are fast and chatty…awfully
funny. The talk in these plays in so bright and relentless –
so fizzy in Learning Curves that the actors literally swirl and
swoon to match the excitement of the language.”
- The Washington Post
“Ally Currin is a Washington actress and playwright best
known for giving funny performances of other people’s work.
But with two of her scripts…premiering just weeks apart on
different D.C. stages, it may be time to start viewing her as a
playwright, first and foremost.”
- Washington City Paper
The Subject:
“Currin’s ability to write natural-sounding dialogue
that is also revealing of the mental state of the characters is
one strength of the play. The other is her careful plotting that
carries the story through from opening to closing logically with
no loose ends to trouble you even as you think back after the play,
but which never seems to telegraph where the story is going to end
up.”
- DC North
Fur and Other Dangers:
“A riotous comedy…whip-smart dialogue…You are
lulled into considering Fur and Other Dangers a fun, fast-moving
romp – until the second act, when things take a darker turn…
‘Fur’ is a whiskery delight.”
- The Washington Times
Amstel in Tel Aviv:
“… a quick, easy-to-take buddy story…you feel
that this 75-minute journey through the vicissitudes of their lives
deserves to be a little bit longer.”
- The Washington Times
“… a pair of well-tuned…characterizations we
quickly latch onto through crisp renderings of some of the freshest,
most sparkling dialogue around. Trouble is, there simply isn’t
enough of it. During the curtain call, I considered raising my hand
to ask if the actors might be kind enough to do it again.”
- Potomac Stages
Dancing With Ourselves:
“ Though she never sets foot onstage, actress Allyson Currin
has to be counted the star of the two-comedy evening…she has
written one play and directed the other with the same mocking amusement
at life’s indignities that always inflects her performances.
Those lucky enough to have seen her…will very nearly be able
to trace the arch of her eyebrow in the lines she’s penned
for her pair of lovesick alter-egos…The patter Currin has
written for the two is a hoot…(The actors’ work), and
the author’s savvy way with one-liners, results in a comedy
that concludes long before patrons will want it to.”
- Washington City Paper
“ (Dancing With Ourselves is) apparently a first work. If
so, that makes this confidently-written exploration of platonic
friendship all the more impressive…before long you’ll
learn to shout back at the both of them the obvious romantic solution
under their noses. Miss Currin is too wise for that, though.”
- The Washington Times
“ Right in step…a wry, one-act portrait.”
- The Washington Post
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