Word of mouth…
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch
Beth Accomando, KPBS
“If you want to sit passively in a theater and watch a play then InnerMission’s new production of "Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again." is not for you.
InnerMission describes itself as “driven to tell stories that grab you and shake your insides.” Revolt She Said Revolt Again does just that with its experimental, and inventive collection of vignettes.”
Gideon’s Knot By Johnna Adams
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union Tribune
“InnerMission is known for producing intimate, immersive dramas on difficult subjects and Johnna Adams’ 2012 play isn’t for the squeamish. It’s a heart-pounding, suspenseful 90-minute journey through the women’s grief, fury and regret...a powerful look at two very flawed women in a near-flawless InnerMission production.”
Pat Launer,
Times of San Diego
"InnerMission Productions thrives on intensity. They love to go deep and dark, and 'Gidion’s Knot' is one of their best...
The actors are superb, Nell is perfectly measured and controlled – until she isn’t. Kaneshiro is tightly spooled, both teasing and poised to pounce, a fiery amalgam of anger and grief. Two finely shaded and delicately calibrated performances, in a blistering pas de deux."
Seminar by Theresa Rebeck
David L. Coddon,
San Diego City Beat
“Anyone who’s ever tried to write fiction seriously—in or out of a classroom—should be spellbound by the language of this cogent 2011 play. Kym Pappas’ expert direction elicits top performances from all, especially Sachs as Leonard and Guzman’s Martin, an understandably reluctant protégé. Seminar’s truths about writing and human insecurities are inescapable.”
Pat Launer,
Center Stage
“Fresh from its San Diego Critics Circle win of the Don Braunagel Award for Outstanding Work by a Small Theatre Company, InnerMission Productions scores again, in this third excellent staging of its first full season…Kym Pappas directs with a firm hand but a light touch, and her five skillful actors carve out nicely nuanced characters.”
The Diary Of Anne Frank adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Jeff Smith,
San Diego Reader
“I’ve seen wonderful theater in a social hall at the Del Mar racetrack and in the library of a middle school in Santee. I’ve come to anticipate capable results at Chula Vista’s OnStage Playhouse. Their Diary of Anne Frank, however, went way beyond expectations.
A wall on the lobby had handwriting in different colored ink. Seen up close, each was a letter to Anne Frank. People wrote them after seeing the show. If you read a few going in, the bursts of praise and compassion prepared you in a unique way for what was to come.
The stage was the cramped upper floor — the “Secret Annex” — at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, where eight people hid out from the Nazis for almost two years. Director Kym Pappas treated it throughout as real, and the audience as floating passers-by. Until the actors exited, in a medieval Dance of Death, they never left the stage. Once they did, there was no curtain call. They were gone. And when audiences exited, many grabbed a pen and added to the multicolored outpourings on the wall.
The production boasted an outstanding performance by Lucia Vecchio as young Anne and dedicated ensemble work. But what lingers is the unseen hand of the director. Never once did Pappas announce that she was behind the project. And yet her imagination was everywhere. They should give her a building!”