Fred Rohan Vargas - Press Coverage

"Though productions, with the name recognition of familiar folk and fairy tales draw the biggest crowds at the Connection, Rita Washington, the Black Rep's education and community programs director, suggests that The Island of Yaki Yim Bamboo will have broad entertainment appeal."

'Set at Carnival, it has a wonderful sense of movement' she observes. “ The audience is involved, they become a group visiting the island. They can even dance the limbo at the end."

The Riverfront Times
St. Louis, Missouri

“It was the best play I have ever seen.”

“At the end of the show I clapped so hard
my hands hurt.”

General comments by students of
Muschal School in Bordentown, New Jersey

“I like this story because it is clear and fun. I think it deals with something very relevant to children but hard to dramatize beyond Peter Pan's growing up.”

Hailey Ratigan
13th Street Repertory Theatre
New York, New York