Press Quotes
“Mark Chrisler’s intelligent, thrilling TEATIME AT GOLGOTHA [is] rewarding: bringing history, myth, and hallucination into fruitful collision. Chrisler … presents a heady, wittily self-effacing hour-long fantasy that charms even as it ridicules its own grandiosity. Chrisler partitions the stage into three playing areas, each populated by three characters from a different historical period … Gradually the worlds begin to intersect, as the same phrase that ends a scene in one era starts the next in another … The most striking moment of TEATIME AT GOLGOTHA comes when the three playing areas are lit simultaneously for the first time and all the characters, stupefied, see one another … The cool humor and fantastical musings of TEATIME AT GOLGOTHA … Using great theatrical economy — the play is rhetorically precise, and all the details are telling — Chrisler needs only an hour to develop his themes. But rather than pin his ideas down at the end, he lets them linger evocatively.” —Justin Hayford, The Chicago Reader