Guinea Pig Solo
An inventive madhouse of a play&#8230I was compelled, amused, scared, offended and jolted&#8230Leonard comes at you head on and with no holds barred, like no one that I know of at work presently in the theater. He is a force to be reckoned with&#8230a kind of raw, innocent daredevil committed to his own aesthetic.David Rabe &#8220&#8230this genuinely startling piece of
theater lodges under the skin like a needy parasite and burrows away long after the final curtain&#8230It&#8217s not to be missed by those who like theater to hit the back of the gut.&#8221Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune &#8220&#8230haunting and harrowing&#8230bears the marks of a passionately engaged writer with a poetic soul, a gift for bristling dialogue, a pitch-black comic sensibility and an almost Orwellian view of the world&#8230based on WOYZECK but utterly contemporary in its reworking&#8230the kind of catharsis rarely found on the stage.&#8221Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times