WE ARE PUSSY RIOT OR EVERYTHING IS PR
City Arts Magazine (Seattle) | “A poetic and sliced-up chronicle of the self-styled ‘most famous performance art piece in history’ and the politics and personas that swirl around it.”
DC Theatre Scene | "Their story blisters to life in WE ARE PUSSY RIOT, an in-your-face mix of ripped-from-the-transcripts dialogue, performance art, improv and fourth-wall shattering by Barbara Hammond."
BroadwayWorld | "An incredible piece of live theater which directly involves the audience to think about and speak up against the injustices occurring in today's global society, and cleverly staged so no one in the house can remain unnoticed or passively comfortable.”
Windy City Times |"The political winds that have been blowing in the US are frightening enough to make this play into a warning of what can happen in a dictatorship... Once this play might have had an “it can’t happen here” feeling; that is no longer so. Now it is a reminder that protest is an obligation of the people when their leaders are out of control. Now it is a reminder that if we are not, as members of the band have said, all Pussy Riot, we ought to be.
DC Metro Theater Arts | “Takes us into the spirit of Pussy Riot, into the wild energy and forceful violation of public spaces, into the group’s provocative language, and total disrespect for State authority…[It] brings that Russian energy to an American stage, allowing us to witness…what it means to stand-up [sic] against the oppressiveness of State power and be counted.”
TERRA FIRMA
Theater Pizzazz | "Hammond has written a terrific play...TERRA FIRMA is Off-Broadway theater par excellence. A solid, well-written, well-acted theatrical piece that leaves you pleased, laughing and thinking about what you saw long after you’ve left the theater."
TheaterMania | “The world of Barbara Hammond's TERRA FIRMA exists between those poles of optimism and doom, as a tiny country looks out over the waters in defiance of the end of the world. The end is an unlikely and ballsy beginning for the brand-new theater company, the Coop, which marks its maiden voyage with TERRA FIRMA.”
The Riverdale Press | "There’s a real punch here, as the playwright serves up circumstances to underscore the sensitive veneer of civilization, riding a time bomb. “Terra Firma” lets us whistle in the graveyard, and honest laughter is always a plus.”
Exeunt NYC | "In all its hilarity and lightness, TERRA FIRMA is a tragicomedy packed with complexity that asks a lot of difficult questions… it’s a worthy piece of theatrical endeavor that we need to chew on”
Front Row Center | “Through her adroit script, Hammond tackles the controversies of immigration, power, a nation’s humility and responsibility to its citizens, and to the greater good of the country and its place in the world.”
Reviews From Underground | “Above all, micronations serve to remind us of both the boundlessness of the human imagination and the vanity of all human endeavor. TERRA FIRMA serves up those reminders in an entertaining package tour that is well worth the ticket price.”
EVA TRILOGY
San Francisco Examiner | “engaging from start to finish... delivered by the luminous Julia McNeal... a seamless stream-of-consciousness that evokes James Joyce's Molly Bloom, or Dylan Thomas' poetry.”
Theatrius |“Hammond's play asserts that Truth sets us free. Life, As It Is, offers a moral compass when we can listen deeply enough.”
Stark Insider | “Each play in the trilogy champions its own theatrical landscape, reflecting the tremendous range of Hammond’s writing and the evolving state of her subject.”
48 Hills (San Francisco) | “When Eva Malloy (Julia McNeal) muses 'It's a lifelong journey, isn't it, shaking off a Catholic childhood?' a knowing chuckle ripples through the audience. Yet as the play unfolds, we witness the deep pain that flippant quip attempts to gloss over.”
Theatre Eddys | “Each act can well stand alone as its own story and play; but together the package is wondrous in its exploration of the ravages and effects of personal loss and how to come to peace with that loss.”
A new Irish epic at Magic Theatre| ★ ★ ★ ★
“Hammond has managed the most important thing: writing a central character so engaging, I hung on her words (and others’ words about her). As each play finished, I eagerly anticipated the next one”
New York Theatre Review | “...Performed by Aedin Moloney in a feat of naturalism that looks bone deep...Eva the Chaste is a remarkably introspective play...”
Time Out NY | "Barbara Hammond sows it with evocative turns of phrase...directed by John Keating with an eye toward Beckett...Moloney delivers with impressive clarity and nuance, to almost hypnotic effect...Moloney's Eva is a memorable creation."
Flavorpill New York | “Barbara Hammond's monologue is similar in structure to James Joyce but the difference here is a female perspective that doesn't require a dissertation to unravel its meaning.”