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A captivating mystery that has us hooked as we uncover the crime and all we know! Well done!

I love the feeling of this play. Everything is so surreal. It feels like I'm in a dream, exploring an old childhood home. The use of flashbacks is powerful and emotional. This whole play feels separate from time and space!

If you don't want to read the monster of a novel Crime and Punishment, then I would suggest this play. It is a mysterious thriller that will keep you wondering not the who but the why. Full of three interesting characters with equally interesting pasts, this play is a perfect crime show that will push the ideas of the guilty and innocent.

What a fantastic piece! Carabatsos creates an atmospheric theatrical world with just a few characters and rhythmic, spare dialogue. I love the way that the piece winds back and forth through time and moves along at a steady yet constantly building pace. The use of the source material is also inspiring and helps me see that text in a new light--the roots of Rodion's (or Ross') desire to be exceptional feels clearly sprung from toxic and destructive tropes of masculinity and are effectively contrasted with the reasonable and incredibly justifiable anger, pain, and rage of the women represented here.

What resonates in this amazing new work is the modern belief that we are right (whoever we are) and that they are wrong (whoever they are) and that our rightness justifies any action, and any statement. There are no disagreements, there are no differences of opinion, there is right and there is wrong. And it is this sense of being right that makes one superior to the other. We are free to define our own reality, and in that definition we reign supreme. Carabotsos deftly describes our entire society, one in which paranoia and alienation dominate our actions. Highly recommended!

What a wonderful play - from a sentence written by Dostoyevsky, Carabatsos makes a whole new piece, and it sings! I love the words and the birds. Fascinating and filled with so much dramatic tension, great moments - the destroying and rebuilding of lives - a memorable play!

Resentment and remorse, these emotions are played against each other in such a way that they twist you round and round till you dare not even breathe, and then when you think it is safe to breathe, it twists you again. A well structured and gripping surreally real play.

A public reading of WE WILL NOT DESCRIBE THE CONVERSATION was produced at Midtown Direct Rep in 2016. Eugenie’s play is a suspenseful exploration inspired by the missing POV of the female characters in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. This edge-of-your-seat psychological journey inspired an enthusiastic post-performance talk back. Highly recommend!

This play works wonders on so many levels. The exploration of darkness in the mind that Carabatsos is able to uncover is both exciting to read, and terrifying to watch. The play's structure flows seamlessly from past to present. You will get chills when you read this!

I love that this play that explored what a male writer distilled to a sentence, Eugenie has exploded that sentence idea and showed us what's on the other side of the fun-house mirror: two women bonding. At GPTC, the audience loved the script's twists and turns; who we're siding with at any moment can change. These characters are aspiring to better themselves but more importantly, searching to fill this horrible empty feeling of being incomplete. A great piece for an intimate cast & on a practical level, works well in any space. Actors will love you, designers too.