Critical Praise

"POTENT ART. "
New England Theatre Geek

“EYE-OPENING … AN EXTRAORDINARY PLAY.
Its sideways development is astonishingly artful.
What’s more, it is artful in a way specific to
the cognitive profiles of the actors involved.
If it moves in unfamiliar ways and is delivered through unfamiliar means,
that is a sign that it is delivering new information.
These artists are not just making theater
that affirms their life experience.
They are showing the rest of us how their life experience
AFFIRMS, AND ENHANCES, THE THEATER."
— New York Times

"★★★★★
LUMINESCENT!
It’s a piece of unexpectedly brilliant theater about which
giving too much away would undermine its maximum effect.
Don’t let the initially pretentious-sounding title put you off.
By the time the import from Australia finishes, its meaning is
all too clear and gorgeously pertinent and pungent.
Saying anything more detailed than artificial intelligence
and its eventual widespread ramifications is a strong focus
risks giving away the solar-plexus wallop that ‘The Shadow’ delivers.
AN INDISPUTABLE MUST-SEE."
— New York Stage Review

"THE BEST PIECE I’VE SEEN IN THE FESTIVAL SO FAR.
Australia’s Back to Back Theatre worked with a
company of intellectually disabled actors to devise
A BEAUTIFULLY SCRIPTED PIECE.
FINELY STRUCTURED AND PERFORMED."
- Vulture

"MASTERFUL. STRIKINGLY CLEVER.
Feels so natural and rooted in reality
that it's hard to believe it's a devised
work of fiction and theatre."
- Broadway World

"The festival’s most rewarding in its complexity.
The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
is very much about the audience.
I wondered: How did they read my mind?
This quartet of characters doesn’t include heroes or victims or saints and the play relishes in catching the audience in the act of attaching such labels to the performers."
- Slant Magazine

International Press

"★★★★ Offers an urgent and uncompromising conversation about the state of humanity with a seamless interplay between creativity and critique"
- The Age (Australia)

"★★★★ Provocative and will leave you with questions. It’ll also make you want to tell your friends to go see it. Now."
- The Music (Australia)

"Back to Back delights in braiding dreamlike, slow-motion dialogue with deadpan comedy, or vigorous physical fracas with heartbreaking monologues.”
– The Saturday Paper

Audience Raves

"a brilliant, extremely well-made piece"
- Audience Member, Facebook