Mary's Wedding Review Highlights

 

"If this production had been a videotape I would have rewound it and watched the whole thing over again the minute it ended." - New York Theatre Review

 

"With an impressive economy of means—only one set, two actors and no intermission—Massicotte has combined a fictional romance with the true story of a heroic World War I exploit." - New York Times

 

"This is what theatre is about. A brilliantly written piece reflecting true to heart relationships and what is needed to be done to work through obstacles to reach the one you love." - Chicago Stage Standard

 

"The marvellous new Canadian play is certain to make immediate and lasting impact...The ending really is quite extraordinary in its emotional impact." - CBC Radio Canada

 

"A play that understands loving and grieving and shakes you with the horrible immediacy of war." - Orlando Sentinel

 

"With a refreshing lack of cynicism, this deeply romantic dream-play goes straight to the heart with timely themes of love and loss during wartime." - The Seattle Times

 

"Mary’s Wedding is a non-linear style dream-scape memory romantic tale that is a lovely and wonderfully touchingly gem!" - Chicago Critic 

 

"The opening-night audience sat entranced and the final moments are some of the most heart-wrenching I have experienced in a theatre in a long time." - Edmonton Sun

 

"Massicotte's play about love, separation and regret is an unpretentious winner...lyrical, warm and sweet spirited, a love story that avoids mushiness, a war story that doesn't assault us with earnest speeches." - Ottawa Citizen

 

"Among other things, Massicotte has done his history homewaork and manages to convey an amazing amount of information in an engrossing, personal way." - New York Theatre Wire

 

"It is a lovely story. At times funny, at times romantic, sometimes dramatic, a little sad, but always with that easy charming undertow that pulls the audience along with it." - Applause! Meter, Calgary

 

"Poignant and suspenseful, the play is relevant to this day." - CurtainUp, Los Angeles

 

""Mary's Wedding has audiences breathing in at the first words and only consciously exhaling after the last scene ends." - Victoria Rainbow News

 

"Massicotte's play is simple, too—deceptively so, in that its uncomplicated story contains a world of experience." - Washington City Paper

 

"Stephen Massicotte is the poet, working with homey materials to create a 95-minute love story that fades in memory even as it's told. It turns the audience into poets, too, making us imaginative participants in this story of doomed love." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 

"Covering first love thwarted by war, how loving someone strongly is as frightening as it is exhilirating, and companionship in war, the play's dream setting now in this revival achieves full effect." - Edinburgh Guide