Photo by Peter Gref
BITTER
Although the idea is interesting, the script leaves it unsatisfyingly underdeveloped. The dialogue seems awfully and needlessly contrived, the direction is clumsy and the acting, with one notable exception, does little to make one forget one is just watching a performance of 20-somethings pretending to be teenagers.
Joel Elkins – LA Theatre Review
BITTER
Is it a send-up, a social commentary or a quasipersonal reminiscence? In an apparent attempt at all three, it scores well at none. Under Mark Seldis’ direction, the performances, like the play itself, compel only sporadically.
Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly
BITTER
So “Nibbler” is a coming-of-age story with a lot of fun stuff about sex and ’80s music and sex and pre-Clinton politics and sex and captured memories. But, in the end, even the glow of otherworldly creatures invading New Jersey woods doesn’t shed the kind of light on this material that we need here.
Jennie Webb – Backstage
