“ I had the pleasure of seeing SICKLE at Red Theatre in Chicago. Fenbert takes on a difficult, important topic, but does so through skillful characterization and plotting rather than didactic docudrama. The fact that she does so with an all female cast makes the play that much more commendable. But what I'm going to take away from the play is its realistic portrayal of these people in an impossible situation. Fenbert finds a way to make a satisfying script out of an unbearable topic, with sardonic humor, a Slavic sensibility, and politics based in human beings' suffering. ”