Praise for HP LOVECRAFT: ARKHAM Praise for HYPNAGOGIA! That's pretty weird. - The
Gawker (New York), June 9th, 2005
'Hypnagogia!': Ingenious, Kooky amusement - The Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, May 12, 2005 'Hypnagogia!' writer and performer knows the word well
- Interview by Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 6, 2005 Praise for Some Kind of Cult
Sketchy groups strike comedic gold - Contra Costa
Times (San Francisco), January 12, 2004 Other Mention
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"half-camp, half-serious and all fun" - The Seattle Times, October 27th, 2005
Josh Knisely's rendition of "The Shunned House" gets things off to an atmospheric start,
and Cleopatra Bertelsen brings exotic appeal to her investigation of one of Arkham's dreary haunts.
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"very smart and scary and funny" - The Stranger, October 26th, 2005
I thought Arkham was swell, and indeed this review will probably be a positive one. (It's true!)
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"surprisingly well-done" - The Seattle University Spectator, October 19th, 2005
Arkham is an effective, disturbing bit of theater full of twists and turns ... the perfect Halloween treat.
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"Both silly and engaging" - The Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, October 11th, 2005
The young artists at Open
Circle Theater have this thing about a venerable pioneer of sci-fi horror:
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). They adapt his seriously ludicrous stories for the
stage.
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More Bertolt Brecht or Erwin Piscator than Saturday Night Live.
- The Apiary (New York),
June 10th, 2005
The actors interfaced with videos and weaved post modernist performance
art with comedy and wonderment.
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Some 20 years ago the Talking Heads implored "Stop Making Sense!"
To which this month,
playwright/performer Josh Knisely can respond, "No problem! Step right
inside and see for yourself."
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Creative people "dream things up" -- sometimes literally. Perhaps
the most famous instance involves the legendary
chemist Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, who in 1865 allegedly discovered
in a dream the structure of the
benzene molecule.
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"Great stuff all around."
-Mike Daisey (Comedian, Playwright), www.MikeDaisey.com
[Some Kind of Cult] was hugely impressive with a range of material that
sifted through the edges of
pop culture and twentysomething angst for laughs.
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"Particularly noteworthy are [sic] Josh Knisely, who as a frustrated
translator trying to make sense of a supposedly
ancient (and possibly forged) piece of ancient Chinese text displays a nicely
textured physicality, full of
nervous ticks, head-twitching, stutters and an almost pathetic sense of confusion."
- Christopher Comte, TheatreSeattle.com
"Among the notable characterizations are Katherine Woolverton as the
flustered expert on coincidence, Scott O. Moore as the furtive thief, Brannon
Moore as the starchy soldier and Josh Knisely as the distraught translator."
-Joe Adcock, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Horror in the Theater:
an H.P. Lovecraft Triptych of Terror, October, 2003
"... each piece is darkly fun, singular, surprising, and smartly presented
in its own right, due in no small part to the collective efforts of way too
many cast and crew to be mentioned here (but I'll give a nod to the performances
of Aaron Allshouse, Josh Knisely, and Kate Kraay, each of whom caught my eye)."
-Adrian Ryan, The Stranger
The Horror in the Theater: an H.P. Lovecraft Triptych of Terror,
October, 2003
"Josh Knisely goes from insufferably arrogant to absurdly weird as
the mad scientist. As the wary associate so necessary to this genre, Aaron Allshouse
goes from uneasy to distraught."
-Joe Adcock, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer