CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO PRESS:
09/30/02
- "Off-off-Broadway theater and the U.S. military make for strange
bedfellows. Add in the medical community, and you've got an even more unlikely
alliance. Uniting the three is "Charlie Victor Romeo," a play that vividly
portrays how man reacts under fire."- Whitney Fuller, Gainesville Sun
Preview
"Pilots were there. So were politicians and bureaucrats, including
Construction and Transportation Minister Chikage Ogi. The documentary-style
play Charlie Victor Romeo, which depicts the real-life struggles for survival
in the cockpits of six airplanes involved in airline accidents, has attracted
a wide variety of spectators to The Suzunari theater in Tokyo since it opened
on July 26." - Asami Nagai, Staff Writer, The Daily
Yomiuri, Tokyo, Japan
04/30/02 - "It is the most
intense 75 minutes I've ever spent in a theater." - Richard Nilsen,
The Arizona Republic
04/19/02
- "Cockpit crises teach strong lesson Play attracts attention of professionals"
- Roberta Burnett, Special for The Arizona Republic
04/18/02 - "If you want melodrama, rent Airport. If you want
to see doomed professionals struggling to make the right descisions under
impossible circumstances, see Charlie Victor Romeo."- James
Reel, Tucson Weekly
04/18/02
- "'Charlie Victor Romeo,' a theatrical docudrama that strips away
the sensationalism of these disasters and presents its audience with the
gritty truth." - Graig Uhlin, The Arizona Daily Wildcat
02/15/02 - Charlie Victor Romeo shouldn't put anyone off flying. It's like
the bumper sticker: "If you can read this, thank a teacher." - Partick Cornish,
The Western Australian
02/15/02
- "You are riveted to your seat" - Victoria Laurie, The Australian
02/14/02
- "Air crashes play survives turbulence" Andrea Mayes, The Sunday
Times, Perth
02/12/02 - Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) CVR Interview with Bob
Berger
02/06/02 - Jamie Mereness recieves BackStage
West Garland Award for Charlie Victor Romeo Sound Design
02/01/02 - "a significant
piece of theatre that delves into the human spirit and its will to live."
- X-Press Magazine Interview with Patrick Daniels - Perth Australia Preview
02/01/02 - "Don't let fear
get the better of you." - Ron Banks, The West, Australia
01/26/02 - "Pilot conversations
during airline disasters form the basis of an unlikely theatrical hit"
- Misha
Schubert, The Australian
01/03/02 - "Charlie Victor Romeo
is far more objective, yet its power still lies in the combination of the
real and the theatrical, a combination that allows the audience to gain
insight about what happens to people trying to do their jobs under incredible
stress." - Meg Arader, The Reader, Omaha, Nebraska
10/01/01
- "Visceral, terrifying and strangely exhilarating" - Alexis Soloski,
American Theater Magazine
09/05/01 - “It has lessons in it that
are universal, across every kind of aircrew and for every pilot and flight
engineer that flies.”
-
Col. Jim Brooks, Chief of Operational Training, USAF,
Air Force Times
08/31/01 "'CVR'
does a good job of showing the crew's interaction," said Varljen. "(Showing
the play) is an opportunity for us -- it replicates what actually happened
(in each of the six events)."
- Maj. John Varljen, USAF
Global Mobility Operations Training Manager, Pentagon
07/06/01- "Charlie Victor
Romeo is documentary theatre at its most gripping, and most studiously mimetic."
- Laura Weinert, Backstage West
07/05/01
- "Riveting! Inspiring! Dedicated to the human struggle and desire
to fly." KCRW Public Radio CVR Review (Real Player Required) - Louis
Fantasia, Theater Talk
06/29/01 Horror, Taken to a Higher
Level - , Los Angeles Times
06/29/01
Theater inside the cockpit - Evan Henerson, LA Daily News
06/29/01 `CVR' audience on
a white-knuckle flight -
Jim Farber, Los Angeles Daily Breeze
06/23/01 Drama Straight From the Cockpit,
- Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times
06/23/01 Play gives new meaning to
the term 'black-box' theater -
Rob Lowman, Los Angeles Daily News
06/23/01 Black Box Theatre -
Jamie Painter Young , Backstage West
06/23/01 Dark Voyage Voices From The Black Box - Stephen Lemons, Los Angeles
New Times
06/23/01
"Plane crash transcripts inspire play"
- UCLA Daily Bruin Senior Staff
06/23/01 'We're going down!' `Charlie
Victor Romeo' takes audience into cockpit of doomed airliners
- Jim Farber, Los Angeles Daily Breeze
03/01
". . . a remarkable performance" - Tom Benenson, Flying Magazine
02/01/01
"I
knew there was something in these mesmerizing skits - this knitting together
of actual recordings of human speech - that represented a vein an English teacher
could mine." - Dudley
Barlow, Education Digest
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8/27/00 CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO wins 2 FringeNYC Awards: Overall Excellence - Sound Design and Overall Excellence - Drama |
6/8/00 Watch the PBS Newshour story on Charlie Victor Romeo stream on the Internet
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5/14/00 CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO wins 2 Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Sound Design and Outstanding Unique Theatrical Experience! |
PBS Newshour story on Charlie Victor Romeo (Transcript) 6.9.00
"'Charlie Victor Romeo' Offers A Peek Inside the Black Box" - Wall St. Journal
"an unusually moving piece of theater." - The Kansas City Star
"The most riveting theatrical experience currently in New York" - The Hollywood Reporter
"It was about the triumph of the human spirit, and calm in the middle of chaos..." - New York Times
"INSPIRED . . . A SYMPHONY OF CATASTROPHE . . ." - The Village Voice
"No play presently running on New York stages can match the intensity of this dramatic scene..." -TimeOutNY
"Now Playing: The Way Things Go Wrong" - Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine
"...one of this season’s most stunning new theatrical events" - Showbusiness Weekly"...unmatchably profound insight into what it is to be human." - Curtain Up
"Charlie Victor Romeo is in the best tradition of documentary theater." - Paper Magazine
"CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO is the closest any of us will ever get to experiencing those tense final moments of a commercial flight gone bad." - www.avweb.com
National Public Radio - All Things Considered Interview and Excerpt (Real Player required.)