Migraaaaants, or there's too many of us on this damn boat Reviews

DC Theater Arts- Recommended

"...In this play on the border between sendup and serious, the range of topics is sweeping, the call to shared humanity is clarion, and the theatricality is extraordinary. Kudos to ExPats for bringing to DC a gripping and thought-provoking play that could not be more on time."

Washington City Paper- Recommended

"...And yet the playwright’s humanism is always apparent as he mocks the xenophobic fantasies some demagogues promote as they present the future as a choice between a fortress Europe where borders and national identities are firmly guarded, or a nightmare of a fallen Europe, overridden by foreign hordes. Instead the French Romanian dramatist imagines a hybridized future Europe that includes “French Sri Lankans, German Afghans, Swedish Pakistanis, […and] Algerian Romanians.”"

MD Theatre Guide- Recommended

"...The problematic part of this play is, are we supposed to be laughing here? I understand wanting to provide an unexpected story that gets people’s attention while also spotlighting that which theatre can do perhaps better than any art form—entertain while throwing audiences a bit out of kilter as they’re prompted to question the nature of entertainment itself. With this production, the story seems to get lost somewhat in the tangle of theatrical conventions. Although, as far as pure entertainment, the play delivers."

BroadwayWorld- Somewhat Recommended

"...Romanian-born playwright Matei Vişniec has created a steeplechase of a play about the 2015 "migrant crisis" in Europe. His indecision about which style to use challenges director Karin Rosnizeck and her stalwart, six-actor troupe who must shift from realism to farce to musical theatre to satire to Brechtian theatricality so that by the time they reach a unified point of view at the end of the 90-minute, intermission-less production, their gears seem a bit stripped, and the audience are at risk of losing the plot. No matter how strongly Vişniec employs irony, the deaths of thousands of migrants cannot be nor be portrayed as funny."