410[Gone] Reviews

Washington Post- Somewhat Recommended

"...As the story of Twenty-one and Seventeen unspools, another layer of meaning accrues to the distinctive details of the play's afterlife: those telemarketing calls the Monkey King keeps getting; the irrational number imprinted on an eerily generated banner; the fight sequence resembling a computerized martial arts game. All this sensory-overload zaniness begins to seem, poignantly, a metaphor for the disorientation that can accompany great loss."

DCTheatreScene- Highly Recommended

"...Layers are a deep running theme in Rorschach’s production of 410[GONE], from the textual Easter Eggs to the multifaceted design to the stripping away of the main characters’ suffering. Sustaining such depth is an enormous job, but a rewarding one, that gives its audience “Aha!” moments not only during the run, but for days after. Reward yourself by buying a ticket."

BroadwayWorld- Highly Recommended

"...It seemed unlikely to me that a play set in a fantastical arcade, complete with the old favorite Dance Dance Revolution, would be able to stir deep emotions in an audience. But Rorschach Theatre's impactful production of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's 410[GONE], directed by Gregory Keng Strasser, does just that. It uses unlikely imagery to tell a highly personal but universal story of trauma and recovery."

DC Theater Arts- Highly Recommended

"...In the capable hands of Strasser and Rorschach Theatre, Cowhig's post-modern melding of Buddhist philosophy, Chinese mythology, digital-pop-culture, clowning, and family tragedy provides a genre-bending thrill ride that generates both laughter and the contemplation on mortality and loss."