Reviews! "Circle Mirror Transformation" at Peterborough Players
Reviews of Katie Shults as Lauren in Peterborough Players production of Annie Baker’s “Circle Mirror Transformation”
The Keene Sentinel Review- by Alix Woodford
"Rounding out the cast is Lauren, a high-school student, played by Katie Shults. Shults’s Lauren is unabashedly observant and stalwartly deadpan (you know this no-frills kid), given to blurting the obvious questions the rest of us would be too embarrassed to ask. Out of the blue, during a mostly silent exercise, she suddenly asks, “Are we going to do any real acting?” Her performance is another comedic highlight of the show."
The Monadnock Ledger- Transcript Review- by Ashley Saari
"Shults as Lauren is believable as a slightly exasperated teenager trying to get something out of the class, while also dealing with unseen pressures in her personal life. Re as acting teacher Marty and Rees as her husband James play off the publicly idyllic but privately quietly crumbling nature of their relationship with deftness.
Each individual actor gives a little something extra to their role, something needed for this play, which only gives side-eye glimpses to the things that are happening when they’re not together in their acting class. Watching them bring to life ordinary people who grow and break relationships over the course of their six weeks together makes this a worthy show for me."
The Monadnock Beat Review- by Reo Sleeper
"the cast uses their honest and real portrayal of their characters as well as their beautifully organic chemistry with each other to keep the audience enraptured with every emotional high and low the story tackles."
Katie Shults and Philip Kershaw in the Peterborough Players’ production of “Circle Mirror Transformation” by Annie Baker.