"Charming and fun to watch....The artists take the audience on journeys that are insightful and invigorating as well as enjoyable. The Most Radiant Beauty is billed as 'an Einsteinian collage in found text.' Khordoc and Weil have created a toy theater adventure that takes audiences through the words and thoughts of Albert Einstein and other brilliant people (Galileo, Copernicus, Oppenheimer, Newton, and Curie, to name just five). Stories from the Bible (of creation, Cain and Abel) are interspersed with quotations from these various scientists, who ponder the nature of what's knowable and the awesome responsibilities of dabbling with elements of nature (radium, the atom) that could well destroy the world as we know it...[It's] a stream-of-consciousness stroll through Big Ideas, with puppets, lightboxes, lightbulbs, shadow figures, and more as our guides. Khordoc and Weil translate their own sense of wonder beautifully, and help us see and hear familiar concepts anew as a result." -- Martin Denton, nytheater.com
"intriguing...a fascinating collage about life as most of us don’t know it." -- New York Times
"the winsome puppets and gentle humor convey the importance of tolerating difference and the right of all people to define their own identity...these lovingly created stories work magic in transforming seeming limitations into privileges." -- Backstage
CAT'S CRADLE:
"[This] faithful adaptation of Vonnegut's novel is accompanied...by video footage of ingenious miniature sets for the book's locales." -- Village Voice
“because the show takes place in many different settings, [director Edward] Einhorn was wise to hire Tanya Khordoc and Barry Weil of the Evolve Company. They solved the multiple set problem by building scale models, and then employing a videographer to zero in on each, and project the immensely larger image on the back wall. To quote Bokonon, 'Nice, nice; very nice.'” -- Theatermania.com
"One of the more creative aspects of the show is how it sets up the various locations. There is a tall rack of shelves sitting upstage on which there are scale models of the locales. A camera on a stick is moved around the models while the picture is projected on a...screen behind the action. These models, designed by Tanya Khordoc and Barry Weil, are very detailed and quite beautiful." -- nytheatre.com
"one wholly original device is the playful model set designed by Evolve Company (Tanya Khordoc and Barry Weil)...It's also totally in sync with the text -- Mr. Weil, who spends most of the play manipulating a miniature camera along tiny streets, doubles as the elusive Frank Hoenniker, an excitable man-child who enjoys models." -- New Theatre Corps
MOTORMORPHOSIS:
"Motormorphosis, directed, designed, and performed by Tanya Khordoc and Barry Weil, is a funny puppet piece that brings to mind Ionesco's Rhinoceros...the two puppeteers interpreting all the roles provide the show with style, unity, and graceful speed." -- nytheatre.com
EVOLUTION:
"Really intelligent design...it may not be Darwin, but it sure is fun." -- New York Times
"Witty and delightful" -- Puppet Master
FUNNY AS A CRUTCH:
"One of my favorite pieces of the evening was Nellie, a hilarious sort-of parody of the old movie Lili, featuring some delightful puppets (brilliantly designed by Barry Weil) such as Oedipus, Quasimodo, and Captain Hook" -- nytheatre.com
"The piece is enhanced by a terrifically funny quartet of puppets representing disabled celebrities from literature" -- Backstage
