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Robin Witt
Theatre Director
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"Alistair McDowall’s deeply disturbing and utterly riveting 'Pomona,' now the stuff of nightmares thanks to director Robin Witt and the most fearless theater in town [Steep Theatre]..."
- Chicago Tribune
"Director Robin Witt has a special gift for bringing vivid, pulsating life to lesser-known British plays from the mid-20th century."
- Chicago Sun Times
"...Witt’s in-the-round staging echoes the script’s continual return to the notion of loops: cars on a ring road, shoppers at a mall, eternal cycles of violence and abuse. This is Steep and Witt’s second go-around with McDowall; the first was their hit 2015 production of Brilliant Adventures. His carefully crafted but daringly imaginative voice has found an ideal partner in Steep’s precise, emotionally resonant approach. It’s not unlike the thrilling sense of collaboration that forms the core of a good D&D campaign. Many shows could learn a lesson or two from its intense, exhilarating sense of play."
- TimeOut Chicago
“It is unspeakably wonderful to experience this writer [Simon Stephens], this director [Robin Witt] and this essential Chicago theater company [Steep Theatre] all back together again.”
- Chicago Tribune, Light Falls review
"...Stewart, along with Witt and her extraordinarily truthful cast, have spent two acts making this level of poverty feel so pernicious and inescapable and real that you can’t imagine the misery isn’t about to return. Which, sadly, remains a timely empathy lesson for Chicago today."
- TimeOut Chicago
"A note to all those who might need a reminder of the raw beauty and gut-wrenching emotion that can be generated by live theater at its very best: Take a look at the Griffin Theatre production of 'Men Should Weep.' The Scottish playwright Ena Lamont Stewart's rarely seen classic debuted in 1947, and has received only sporadic but triumphant revivals since, and now is receiving its Chicago debut. Under the galvanic direction of Robin Witt, a large cast is turning in some of the most gorgeous performances you will find on any stage in this city, and they are doing so in a play of genuine substance."
- Chicago Sun Times
"...Creepier still is the implication that the crimes committed by the other characters somehow led to Khan’s atrocity. Well, then, if I have all these reservations about the show, why am I recommending it? Partly because Robin Witt’s production for Steep Theatre is so incredibly sharp, with nothing but smart, clear-eyed performances. And partly because it’s worth something to be so unsettled."
- Chicago Reader
"And yet the production [For Services Rendered] does sufficient justice to the qualities that still make Maugham compelling. I don’t mean the jigsaw construction; that’s merely technique. But the moral vision that sees how quickly and falsely people put disasters behind them, thus readying themselves to step blithely into new ones, is not small and not lost on us now."
- New York Times
"Strategically directed by Witt, who allows/encourages each character to emerge fully and in turn, this is a multi-dimensional script authored by Hnath, featuring a terrific cast...."
- Splash Magazines
"Any director looking for a theatrical masterclass is in good hands watching director Robin Witt’s work here: moments of stillness, moments of chaos, the subtle spatial relationships between characters throughout, each actor’s unique sense of physicality. It cannot be understated how specific and detailed Witt’s production is, and it works wonders."
- New City
"Under Robin Witt's razor-edge direction, Kate Buddeke, Kirsten Fitzgerald, Laurie Larson and Guy Van Swearingen deliver performances cutting to the core of Walsh's often-precious wordplay to reveal the unspoken anguish simmering beneath the peaceful surface that continues to embody the Irish ethos."
- Windy City Times
"Visky's play in the capable hands of Robin Witt's direction is a triumphant piece of new theatre that deserves to be seen, consumed and cherished."
-British Theatre Guide
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