Daily Californian Review by By Grace Culhane

When local director Zara Benner chose the 1993 comedy “Five Women Wearing the Same Dress” for her winter staged reading, she had a tremendous script to vivify. Written by Oscar and Emmy-winning screenwriter Alan Ball (“American Beauty,” “Six Feet Under”), “Five Women” veers back and forth from playful to tragic, providing rich material for the small, almost exclusively female cast.

The Exit the King reviews are in:

"Norman Macleod's King Berenger is a marvelous act to behold." — The Daily Californian

"Over the top Surrealist burlesque alternates with emotional, almost maudlin scenes" — The Berkeley Daily Planet

"This production provides an amusing mixture of light-heartedness and gravity." — San Francisco Bay Times

The Reviews are in!

"That amount of profound theatre from Actors Ensemble of Berkeley is a bargain." - By Albert Goodwyn, SF Performing Arts Examiner