Reviews and Publicity for Spankin' Yanks
MICKEY MOUSE IS DEAD 2006
EDINBURGH REVIEWS:
4 Stars in The Scotsman: http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/reviews.cfm?id=1164692006
4 Stars in Metro: http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/edinburgh/theatre/article.html?in_article_id=18539&in_page_id=30
"Terrific...this is close-up theatre at its very best" OnStageScotland.com: http://www.onstagescotland.co.uk/mickeymouse.htm
"Gordon Carver’s direction conjures up the world of the period with great care and a certain gusto" The Stage: http://www.thestage.co.uk/edinburgh/reviews/review.php/13741/mickey-mouse-is-dead
Mickey Mouse is Dead (http://www.theatreguidelondon.co.uk/reviews/edinburgh2006-2.htm)
"Exposing the dark underside of the Magic Kingdom, this new play by Justin Sherin is based on post-death revelations that Walt Disney was a rabid anti-Communist, anti-unionist and possibly anti-Semite. In the 1950s two Jewish Disney writers unluckily try to form a union just as Walt is cosying up to Senator McCarthy. Plot twists put them and the WASP girlfriend of one in the situation where they must choose between fighting the common enemy or sacrificing each other to save their own skins. And that, more than slandering or exposing Disney, is the real subject of the play - the perilousness of the times that made good people have to choose between their ideals and their survival, and that forced some of them to fail the test of character. Come to dish the dirt on Uncle Walt, by all means, but look beyond that to find a chilling and moving little drama." Gerald Berkowitz
"A tremendously slick, fast paced and professional show" 4 Stars: Edinburgh Guide: http://www.edinburghguide.com/festival/2006/fringe/review_theatre.php?page=m
"The emotions run high and wild as we tear through denial, fear, distrust and paranoia" 4 Stars ScottishTheatre.co.uk: http://reviews.scottishtheatre.co.uk/reviews_2006/mickey/index.htm
NEW YORK REVIEWS
New York City's Village Voice, July 2006:
"Justin Sherin’s fascinating new drama explores the dark side of working at the Disney Studios at the height of McCarthyism. Anthony Manna and James Lloyd Reynolds are superb as the fearful unionizing screenwriters who talk the new paint-and-ink girl (Marnye Young) into finding out if Disney knows their plan. Well-written dialogue and Gordon Carver’s solid direction maintain dramatic intensity, despite a frustrating, ambiguous ending."
To read the recent Offoffonline.com review of Mickey Mouse is Dead, click below:
http://www.offoffonline.com/reviews.php?id=813
To read the recent Backstage.com review of Mickey Mouse is Dead, click below:
http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/nyc/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002839642
To read the recent Playbill.com article, featuring Mickey Mouse is Dead, click below:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/100525.html
Other New York mentions:
http://offoffbway.com/2006/06/23/mickey-mouse-is-dead/#more-79
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/07/11/where_the_fring.php
PRESS RELEASES:
For our New York Press Release, click below:
http://www.spankinyanks.com/USERIMAGES/mmidpressnyc27june.pdf
For our August 7th Edinburgh Fringe Press Release, click below:
http://www.spankinyanks.com/USERIMAGES/mmidpressaug72006.pdf
THE JAMMER, EDINBURGH FRINGE, 2004
To read Chris Arnott's write-up in the New Haven Advocate, click below: http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/Arts/content.html?oid=oid:75638
To read Kirsty Knagg's FOUR STAR review in The Scotsman, see below:
http://www.spankinyanks.com/USERIMAGES/jammerscotsman.jpg
To read Jeremy Austin's review in The Stage, click below:
http://www.spankinyanks.com/USERIMAGES/jammerthestage.jpg
To read the Yale Daily News write-up after our return, click below:
http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=26073
