“Lapine, who always brings a designer’s eye to his staging — note the square pools of light the actors often find themselves in — has wisely kept everything about the production understated. The company, perfectly cast… underplays admirably. The result is itself a riveting dream which, for all its unsettling animal imagery, never loses its focus on the people at its core; it’s an enormously empathic evening.”

Jeremy Girard for Variety, 1995

“As Mr. Lapine has devised a method to accomplish his task in purely theatrical terms - through imagery and buried narrative, not explicatory speeches - one can only admire the brilliance of his overall conception… As in his staging of Falsettos and his own Table Settings, Mr. Lapine is bursting with clever directorial ideas here.”

Frank Rich for The New York Times, 1981