A Small Fire OFF-BROADWAY REVIEWS

• NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF A Small Fire

  

  A Sense of Touch, a Sense of Life

  CHARLES ISHERWOOD

  January 7, 2011: Life’s darkest terrors and most visceral delights both play a role in “A Small Fire,” a new drama by Adam Bock that opened Thursday night at Playwrights Horizons. This low-key, quietly moving play features a protagonist who falls victim to a mysterious, debilitating disease — cue the violins — but also features a frank, strenuous sex scene of daring honesty, making for a theatrical combo plate that proves unusually satisfying.

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• NY1 REVIEW OF A Small Fire

  

  NY1 Theater Review: "A Small Fire"

  Roma Torre

  January 11, 2011: Adam Bock's "A Small Fire" is a small play about some very lofty matters - love (both parental and marital), health and friendship. It's a perplexing work that partially succeeds, though, thanks to a beautifully conceived production, it's never less than compelling.

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• NY DAILY NEWS REVIEW OF A Small Fire

  

  'A Small Fire' review: Star Michele Pawk loses her senses while playwright Adam Bock loses his way

  Joe Dziemianowicz

  January 7, 2011: Adam Bock is a playwright with an ear for true-to-life dialogue, an eye for deftly developed characters and a nose for narratives that never lead where you expect.

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• VARIETY REVIEW OF A Small Fire

  

  A Small Fire

  Marilyn Stasio

  January 12, 2011: When stage characters lose their faculties, we expect them to find their lyric voices. That expectation holds even when, as is the case with the stricken heroine of Adam Bock's new play, "A Small Fire," that voice wasn't very pretty to begin with. But this foul-mouthed woman, the owner of a construction company, suffers more than the loss of speech -- along with her sight, smell and hearing -- at the scribe's hands. The poor thing is also robbed of the kind of interior character life that might make her plight dramatically moving, instead of merely pathetically sad.

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• NEW JERSEY NEWSROOM REVIEW OF A Small Fire

  

  REVIEW: ‘A Small Fire’ burns briefly

  Michael Sommers

  January 6, 2011: Adam Bock is the talented author of recent plays like "The Drunken City," a comedy about the romantic aftermath of a bachelorette party and "The Receptionist," an unsettling look at a nice woman's clueless complicity with evil.

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