"Prohibition Project: Ilium Was" is a HIT!

“As always with the TROY Foundry Theatre the acting is impeccable from each of the dozen-member cast…in their unison breath, you hear the life force of a city…

The Foundry folks want to burn down many conventions of theater. And that seemed just fine with Friday's full opening-night audience, a cross-section of people unlike any I've ever seen at a theater production that wasn't a Foundry show: hipsters, politicians, students, seniors, musicians and a retired doctor or two… The action sweeps… between and among socialists, prizefighters, politicians, labor agitators, immigrants and more, the overlapping narratives often intruding on one another, except at the few times when the company comes together for extraordinary single moments…”
Steve Barnes, Times Union

“Individually, each member of the cast is compelling and when they work as a group there is a coordinated sense of purpose that is dynamic…Brenna Geffers, a theater artist who has extraordinary vision and a gift of creativity… This event is a marvel of coordination as her direction channels the chaotic nature of this type of simultaneous theater into a whole…”
Bob Goepfert, The Saratogian, Troy Record and WAMC