"5 stars. This is a podcast we can whole heartedly recommend. It costs nothing, it’s massively entertaining and informative, it’s beautifully produced and acted and it leaves me both hoping and looking forward to the next offering from Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company No. 61."
Shaun Rodger
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"This was a fantastic listen overall...From a more technical perspective, the production is crisp and clear. They incorporate country music, including adaptations of country classics and contemporaneous political songs. The songs are ear catching and serve to provide transitions, exposition, and additional context for the play... I strongly encourage you to keep your ears open for great productions like this. If you want to listen to a wonderfully made play, look them up and listen in."
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“The story is so surprising that listeners will gasp at the turns each episode takes...The production on The Resistible Rise of J.R. Brinkley is well planned and transports listeners to the ‘20s using sound effects and a score you can’t help but dance to...This podcast is recommended for the casual historian and storyteller."
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"With madcap music (on guitar, violin, clarinet, banjo, pennywhistle), the actors act, sing, and perform their characters’ foibles and fabulousnesses. The excellent Trav SD dishes up the loquacious, extroverted, con man Brinkley. His great good will fronts for an unprecedented amorality, corruption and greed. Taken alone, Brinkley’s avariciousness would have raised the suspicions of the most naive. However, through the narrator, Einhorn, with wit and whimsy reveals Brinkley’s illustrious masking qualities and manipulations…..With stylistic brio Einhorn does what he enjoys doing most. He employs absurdist, comedic mayhem to examine outrageous social and cultural behavior."
Carole Di Tosti
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""This is a fresh, energetic, biting satire that deconstructs the power of the con man and the charming story teller...Julia Hoffmann plays the fiddle as if she is channeling Charlie Daniels... Craig R. Anderson has wonderful comic timing... Jenny Lee Mitchell is a fantastic clown... Trav SD was great as the unstoppable self absorbed con man... John Blaylock has a strong presence and a calmness... Ramona Ponce's costumes are cleverly minimalist, yet mighty... Eric Shanower's black and white projected cartoons gave a stunning changing backdrop to the piece... Jeff Nash's lighting 's completely denotes the time and the heightened buffoonery... Tom Berger's arrangements and Richard Philbin's musical direction of the country songs are a total joy to hear...The Untitled Theater Company No.61 has delivered a noteworthy piece in sync with our desperate times.""
Jacquelyn Clare
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“Trav SD—a larger than life character dressed in white proclaiming himself “the most honest man in the world"—nicely captures the essence of J. R. Brinkley...And projections of Eric Shanower's scenic art, representing each stage of Brinkley’s life, help to create a nice depth to the stage."
Adrian Wattenmaker
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