Chimichangas and Zoloft OFF-BROADWAY REVIEWS

• NEW YORK POST REVIEW OF Chimichangas and Zoloft

  

  ‘Zoloft’ will give you a lift

  ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

  June 4, 2012: Don’t expect anything groundbreaking from “Chimichangas and Zoloft.” Fernanda Coppel’s play may be new, but its themes are well-worn: girls coming of age, sexual identity, philandering husbands and depressed wives. But the Mexican-American writer, only 26, brings lively energy — and a couple of nice twists — to situations we’ve seen a million times before. She treats all her characters, no matter their faults, with sympathy. And refreshingly, the show takes place in a milieu we rarely see on local stages: Mexican-American middle-class families in LA.

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• WASHINGTON POST REVIEW OF Chimichangas and Zoloft

  

  Fernanda Coppel’s play ‘Chimichangas and Zoloft’ is a fresh look at parents vs. teens

  Associated Press

  June 3, 2012: There are times when a teenage girl needs the advice of a savvy woman instead of her well-intentioned, single-parent father. This is the predicament of Penelope Lopez, a teenager with a very big problem, in the world premiere of Fernanda Coppel’s fresh, zingy new play, “Chimichangas and Zoloft”, which opened Sunday night off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company’s Stage 2.

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• ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY REVIEW OF Chimichangas and Zoloft

  

  Chimichangas and Zoloft

  Stephan Lee

  June 3, 2012: Don’t start with a fart. That might not be a tried-and-true rule of comedy, but perhaps it should be. Seconds after the lights come up on the new Off Broadway play Chimichangas and Zoloft and before anyone says a word, a resounding fart echoes through the theater, thus setting the tone for this hard-to-digest production.

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