 
“Not your mother's female clowns, they make Ball and Burnett
look tame…
diamond-in-the-rough…
worth-the-ticket-price-alone triumph of comedic costuming and staging.”
-Backstage.com
“alternately silly and sophisticated, whimsical and weird,
engrossing and entertaining...I fell off my chair laughing”
-Attitude Dance Magazine on Clowns By Dead Reckoning
“Some vignettes … descend into slapstick madness. Other sketches are
darker and reminders that the greatest clowns try to make people laugh
to help stave off existential horrors”
NYTIMES (Steven McElroy) on Not Just for Shock Value
“Mainly what we feel is that we're
having a blast, because Not
Just for Shock Value is so darned much fun.... Practically
every comic idea lands, which is remarkably impressive; and the range
of these ideas... is pretty impressive as well….
Kendall
Cornell is the brilliant creator/director of Not Just for
Shock Value, and her work here is splendid. Not only has she
brought out the best in her ensemble in a collaborative process that
probably ought to be patented, but she's built the show seamlessly,
with the best transitions I think I've ever seen in a show of this
kind, all fashioned around the show's only permanent set piece, which
is a very long shower curtain on an even longer line. Here's a word
I don't throw around very often, and I use it here in the most flattering
way: Not Just for
Shock Value is not just crackerjack
entertainment, but a highly commercial one as well. If any
off-Broadway producer-types are reading this (paging Daryl Roth), you
really need to see this show.
A transfer to a bigger venue is just
what's needed to make these Soon-to-be-World-Famous clowns world-famous
Right Now—and
also to ensure that as many audience members as possible get to have
a grand time at one of the funniest and best-assembled
shows in town.”
-nytheatre.com (Martin Denton)
(Read the full review here)
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