operetta - Hamletmachine
performed by Trap Door Theatre - 2011
"Hamletmachine stays in your head... Jonathan Guillen's spare but insinuating score is a threnody for the lost souls...a dirge for the 20th century's age of chaos...Hamletmachine might haunt you days later." - Chicago Tribune
"...haunting, profoundly musical...near-operatic thanks to an exquisite new score..." - Chicago Sun-Times
"...spellbindingly brilliant original composition and music design...an opera of bleak and beautiful ethereal delights...the music is in-and-of-itself a profound invention...compelling vocal performances of this unearthly score..." - Chicago Stage Review
"...thoroughly compelling, jagged-edged chamber opera... smartly contrapuntal score..." - Time Out Chicago
"...mood music that hovers over and deepens the atmosphere of chaos..." - Chicago Critic
"...an eerily beautiful score..." - Centerstage Chicago
"...a concert opera with a haunting score... a near-perfect vehicle to showcase their genius." - NewCity Stage
"...brilliant, haunting, discombobulating musical score..." - From the Ledge
"...a haunting score...dark soundtrack accentuates the mystical aspect of death..." - The Fourth Walsh
"...an eerie soundscape..." - Chicago Theater Beat
Interview with Director Max Truax and Costume Designer Nevena Todorovic