Praise for The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side at PS 122 and Theatre 80 St Marks

Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side at PS 122, Amoralists Reviews

Adam Feldman, Time Out New York

"The happiest surprise of the season. Ahonen has written full, complex characters, and the committed cast approaches them with sincerity and heart. This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side makes you want to follow the Amoralists wherever they go next."

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The New Yorker

"The young company’s deep commitment and contagious exuberance brings to mind the vitality that distinguished the early Off-Off Broadway work of artists like Sam Shepard only a generation ago.”

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Broadway World

“I left wondering what, exactly, Ahonen was trying to say: is he idealizing these people and their lifestyle? Is he trying to show that it can’t work? Or is he making a point about what society does to idealism, and what happens when idealism has to square with the real world around it? The realism of the play he and his talented cast have created makes it such that the answer is, actually, I’d think, all three.”

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Andy Webster, The New York Times

“Deservedly extended and what long, shaggy, exhilarating ride it is. Rendered with brassy verve… vigorous cast members.”

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Aaron Riccio, That Sounds Cool Blogspot

“The sort of theater that needs to be done: it's vital, alive, and full of unsquandered possibilities.”

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Elisabeth Vincetelli, The New York Post

“What I particularly loved about the show was that Ahonen takes these four people and their dreams seriously. …The Pied Pipers is fast, funny, raucous and in-your-face. …It’s cast is 110% committed. I'll certainly follow the Amoralists' work from now on.”

James Comtois, NYTHEATRE.COM

"The cast is so good to the point that I'd often forget I was watching performers recite memorized dialogue. I really cared about these characters. The Amoralists offer a fun, thought-provoking and sometimes intense night of theatre, something that's well worth the audience's time, attention, and money."

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The L Magazine

"For a company concerned with earnest expressions of American identities and ideas, the Amoralist’s couldn’t do much better than this tale."

Dan Avery, HX Magazine

"Pipers offers humor, titillating nudity and some interesting philosophical nuggets."

Jon Sobel, BlogCritics.Org

"The play is a perfect whole -- not for a second is the theatrical spell broken. Sends us reeling into the street feeling provoked, enlivened, and even a little bit enlightened."

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