“A wild ride…Mac’s satire turns a shrewd eye on the corrupting potential of money in the arts as anywhere else…Direction by Darko Tresnjak matches the zaniness of the script…lampooning all involved from artists and arts organizations to their mega-wealthy funders.” —Dan Stahl, The New Yorker
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“Compelling…taking direct aim at one of theater’s most hallowed traditions: the nonprofit fundraising gala…Mac brings a pleasurably vicious mania to this particular play-as-tirade…I found myself won over by the desperate clawing anxiety…and by the way that Mac shifts into a quiet Shakespearean epilogue…between Puck and Prospero donning a joker’s cap to jokingly-and-not unsettle your expectations of how a play should end…Like a lot of Prosperous Fools, it’s both bracingly present and deeply classical.” —Jackson McHenry, New York Magazine
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“Compulsively brilliant…committed performances put across a no-holds-barred circus atmosphere.” —Kenji Fujishima, TheaterMania
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“Sierra Boggess, delivers a master class in precisely calibrated comic acting…her character swans into a gala-slash-ballet premiere for a ballet company in a fabulous gown bearing the faces of the poor children she helps, and Boggess nails a fantastic mix of narcissism, grandeur and arch irony.” —Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New York Times
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“Deeply sobering and extremely funny with Mac’s trademark acerbic bite ably matched by Darko Tresnjak’s incisive direction…a scathing satire of art in the age of oligarchy…it’s one thing to play the Fool and poke fun at your patron. It’s another—braver, harder, more uncomfortable—to sink your teeth firmly into the hand that feeds you…all the performances are strong…we’re left with Mac alone in classic fool’s garb… gently, quietly, it puts before us the questions we’ve been circling all night, and sends us out into the world to resolve them.” —Loren Noveck, Exeunt
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Prosperous Fools runs through June 29 at Polonsky Shakespeare Center.