A Human Being Died That Night Reviews
Washington Post- Recommended
"...The dialogue is loaded with grotesque incident, murky motivation and, eventually, sincere emotion. This would be wrecked by overplaying, yet the performance never stumbles. Simply from an acting point of view, this "South Africa: Then & Now" rep establishes a new high bar for Mosaic. And deep into the troupe's second season, you can feel the dividends accumulating as this social-justice-oriented company finds lens after lens, from local to international, magnifying humanity's sharp sociopolitical divisions . . . and maybe, as the persistent Gobodo-Madikizela hopes, somehow softening even unforgivable crimes and the failures that seem most profoundly irresolvable."
MD Theatre Guide- Recommended
"..."A Human Being Died That Night" is a wonderful companion to "Blood Knot." Mosaic is actively stirring up dialogue and finding global issues that have a personal connection. Both shows in this repertory are beautiful and significant pieces of theatre for us today."
Theatre Bloom- Highly Recommended
"...It is all too easy to make excuses for the violence of the oppressed. Humanity's knee-jerk response to people who commit heinous atrocities is to paint them as monsters. But aren't they just human beings beneath it all? In a powerfully gripping and evocative theatrical exploration, playwright Nicholas Wright presents a deeply harrowing psychological and emotional excavation into post-Apartheid South Africa with his work A Human Being Died That Night. Based on the book by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Directed by Logan Vaughn, this haunting expedition into the mind of a war criminal sparks a primal conversation between actor and audience, between human and monster, between conscience and action."
DCTheatreScene- Recommended
"...Logan Vaughn is a young director who has been building up credits in Chicago and New York and with this production clearly demonstrated she is a committed and passionate one. In this play, she trusts that the transcript and her actors will be able to keep the audience arrested simply by the power of the modern history of South Africa. She is right to do so."
BroadwayWorld- Highly Recommended
"...Director Vaughn keeps the tension tight; the shifts from monologue to dialog are marked with the kind of disorienting clang of prison doors common in such a place (David Lamont Wilson is sound designer)."