Sam and Dede or My Dinner with Andre Reviews
DC Theater Arts- Recommended
"...There's an interesting un-timeliness and reserve in Steven Carpenter's direction, fitting for a play that wants to be Beckettian while rejecting the playwright's signature bathos and precision. The characters don't age. The scenes are paced very similarly. The settings, by Carl Gudenius and Jingwie Dai, have a comic wink. Beckett's steering wheel dwarfs the writer. The hotel room is elegant but strange. The final scene shocks in a rewarding way, and delivers lighting designer Marianne Meadow's finest moments, as well as, oddly, the most genuine connection between its performers. It's as if Beckett knew, "give a man a stage and he'll pace. Stick him in an urn and he may say something.""
MD Theatre Guide- Highly Recommended
"...The current offering at Washington Stage Guild is a delight and unexpectedly so. It's a fascinating fictional tale (based on a very tiny nubbin of truth) of an episodic, shared journey through life by two very disparate people-the playwright Samuel Beckett and the wrestler, Andre the Giant. From Andre's teenage years to his mid-thirties, the play covers about 20 years in six scenes that just flow."