cullud wattah Reviews

Washington Post- Recommended

"...The play gets a staging at Mosaic Theater more than three years after its premiere and more than a decade after residents in the auto manufacturing hub were alerted to hazardous-waste levels of lead and other toxins in their tap water. That the story has no clear or conclusive ending underscores the way our chronically exhausted society keeps being forced to attend to some new cataclysm even as older ones continue unfolding."

DC Theater Arts- Highly Recommended

"...cullud wattah, written by Erika Dickerson-Despenza and directed by Danielle A. Drakes, informs us not only that the crisis in Flint is not over but that wherever we are in the country, we are also victims of this crisis and complicit in its implementation. What Dickerson-Despenza and Drakes have produced in collaboration with their fiercely committed cast is not a news report, social realism, or propaganda. Just as Euripides did with The Trojan Women, cullud wattah offers us a moving chronicle of a people under siege: a testimony of witness that is both epic in scale and personal in its appeal."

MetroWeekly- Recommended

"...Bellamore's portrayal has the character's combativeness well in hand, but the unfathomable cost of Ainee's previous losses doesn't register. In general, the ensemble, under the direction of Danielle A. Drakes, suitably relays the familial bonds of women who have each other's backs, even though they're often at each other's throats. Mitchell's cantankerous, God-loving Big Ma best exemplifies those dynamics of tender care and tough love."