“Tragedy, a Tragedy” – 25% – Bitter

SWEET
Gifted with gravitas and eloquence, the four graveyard-shift journalists in Pulitzer finalist Will Eno’s sharp satire on round-the-clock spin are honing panic that the sun has set and may never rise again.
Amy Nicholson – Los Angeles Weekly

BITTER
Will Eno’s apocalyptic send-up of a local newscast is in essence a clever Saturday Night Live sketch with a metaphysical spin. While this sounds intriguing, try watching Tina Fey do Sarah Palin for 90 minutes. After the first 10 minutes, the gears start to grind and the audience may have a distinct urge to bolt.
Hoyt Hilsman – Backstage

BITTER
Directed by Donald Boughton, the production by Son of Semele is visually spare but vocally over-the-top, as if the actors were instructed to make their yammering as shrill as possible. They succeed hands down, and the results are both exhausting and alienating.
David Ng – Los Angeles Times

BITTER
Will Eno’s portrait of a local TV news team trying to cover the onset of (permanent?) darkness begins with a cutting sense of existential and linguistic satire. Some of the play’s juice begins to dry up as the characters’ moods shift from reassurance to hysteria to exhaustion and what might be death. Still, it’s an intriguing dose of contemporary absurdity.
Don Shirley – LA CityBeat