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As entertaining as is humanly possible.- Joe, Glass Contraption audience member
The Glass contraption changed me as a person. I feel a little braver.- Teen from the 52nd Street Project
We never had theater and music here in this particular way. You opened a door and turned a light on inside everyone one of us here, both the adults and the children. You brought out each child's hidden talents and you gave value to those talents.- Elizabeth Moshe, social worker at The Topsy Center for Children Living with HIV
The Glass Contraption boldly interrogates why the performer steps onto the stage in the first place, examining the act of performance through the logic of the clown. The result is a truly different kind of theater experience...Their shows are poetical, theatrical and lyrical on the one hand and controlled chaos on the other.- Elise Long, head of Spoke the Hub/Gowanus Arts, Brooklyn
Although all the performers proved superb, The Glass Contraption…especially pleased the crowd…pack[ing] such a lightning punch that their curtain call lasted almost as long as their performance.- Carl Blumenthal, former arts reporter with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and founder/publisher of "Arts Alive: A Journal of Brooklyn Culture"
Red-Nosed Life Lessons: Clowns with a Fear Factor (PDF)
New York Times, 9.3.06
