“Doomsday Kiss”: 71% Sweet – UPDATED

SWEET
Doomsday Kiss at Bootleg Theater The end of the world. Endlessly fascinating, isn’t it? Or rather, pondering possibilities about how and when and if. In Doomsday Kiss, an evening of short plays exploring civilization’s last hurrah, the if and the when (that is, now) are a given. It’s the stuff surrounding how that provides fodder for the artists here. And although much of the brand-new writing may feel a bit too familiar, hang in there; to paraphrase the evening’s central character, “There’s an upside to Armageddon!”
Jennie Webb – Backstage

BITTER
It does not bode well for new theater company, The REPO division, when its inaugural production of four loosely connected one-acts concerning the end of days is a strong indicator that the days for this company are probably numbered. Co-produced with the Bootleg Theater in a seedy, downtown adjacent district that looks more like a war zone outside than onstage, the ambitious multimedia collaboration features live music and an art installation by curator Sandy Rodriguez. In a bold attempt to provide all the accoutrements to set the evening’s tone to the point of distraction, these alone cannot distract from the individual plays that collectively fail to deliver anything but a mushroom cloud of nauseating hot air.
MR Hunter – Stagehappenings

SWEET
This inaugural production from The REPO Division is a multimedia installation with four short plays clustered around a theme of apocalypse and a future post-human world. The work is clever and displays a giddily perverse attitude toward the end of civilization and man’s return to a primal state. The experience provided by the list of some two score artists in several media is well-rounded and interactive, and where some of the works (both plastic and literary) fall short in their execution, there are strong points that propel the evening and make it worth the ticket price.
D. Jette – LA Theatre Review

SWEET
It’s the end of the world as we know it in “Doomsday Kiss” at Bootleg Theater. This multimedia collaboration explores apocalypse in fascinating, albeit uneven, ways.
David C. Nichols – LA Times

SWEET
Sometimes a kiss is just a kiss, but Doomsday Kiss is a strange excursion into the unknown that will have you laughing at the end of the world.
Mike Buzzelli – EyeSpyLA

SWEET
“Doomsday Kiss” is an often funny, sometimes moving, always impeccably performed riff on the end of the world in varying degrees of eccentricity.
Frederik Sisa – TheFrontPageOnline

BITTER
While the concept is interesting, and there are funny moments along the way (especially from Michael Dunn and Jessica Hanna, who play the swingers in “Fun Days”), most of the evening lacks the stakes that go along with doomsday scenarios, as well as the character development that would create audience engagement.
Mayank Keshaviah – LA Weekly