Press
April, 2008 - BAIT at the Left Out Festival
at Stage Left Studio (NYC)
“Tom Gualtieri and David Sisco play roughly 14 characters
apiece and do so with smarts, energy, and originality. They jump
from character to character, manipulating their bodies, their voices,
their faces, and their personalities without ever veering into the
realm of cliché. Their character work ranges from the profanely
obvious to the sweetly subtle and the duo works wonderfully together,
nimble enough to allow the other's characters to take necessary focus
and generous enough to let go of the spotlight to let the other performer
shine.”
– Robert Weinstein, nytheatre.com
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here for full review)
“Gay stereotypes run rampant, or swish and strut rampantly,
here in some "bait-and-swish" prancing. But many of these
guys are all too real. The play won six awards in the Columbus National
Gay & Lesbian Theater Festival, including Best of Festival, with
the same team, including director Laura Josepher who keeps all the
plates spinning in the air without a feeling of exhaustion or franticness.
She and the two men also manage to find a moment or two of humanity
and tenderness near the end. Even in this torture chamber known as
relationships and would-be/please-don’t-be relationships, there’s
a glimmer of hope.”
– Rob Lester, EDGE New
York
