The Last Days of Cleopatra

Reviews

• “Laoisa Sexton depicts the city’s working class but across genders and generations…Cleopatra is unstinting with it’s often hilariously ribald Dublin idioms… the actors are splendid: vivid, vibrant, so is this play by a promising writer”

  -- NY TIMES Critics' Pick

• **** “An evocative depiction of fraying family ties… Plenty of punch in it’s sore bruised arms”

  -- TIMEOUT NY

• **** “A loud profane ultimately touching look at a down and out Irish family…as abrasive and self-deluded as they are, their pain and everyday struggles resonate filling the theater

  with emotions that come fast and thick…temporary relief comes in addictive behavior, promiscuity, alcohol and living in the past”

  -- THEATER PIZZAZZ

• *** “Sexton has a gift for capturing the vernacular onstage in a way that sounds simultaneously sublime and authentic… stunningly beautiful”

  -- THEATER MANIA

• **** “Sexton rescues us from the calcified portraits of ourselves that we’ve been subjected to for years.

  The Last Days of Cleopatra is unruly…brilliant…it’s a cause for amazement that a play this incendiary and implicating has been written at all. If you only see one Irish play this year, this is the one”

  -- Irish Central.com

• ***** “A rollercoaster pace that doesn’t let up and sweeps the audience along on it’s emotional ride…Like some of the current TV offerings and films that show the less picturesque sides of the Emerald Isle, there is a grittiness and reality that hits home… Sexton is a truly promising new playwright and we look forward to the sincerity of her future work”

  -- NYIRISHARTS.COM

• “It’s classical Irish tragicomedy in the spirit of a modern Sean O’ Casey, you laugh all the way through and are shattered at the end”

  -- IRISHBLOG