Mary Humphrey Baldridge
RUTH & ROBERT & ROBERT & RUTH
This is one of the two-person plays I’ve seen in a long time that h ad me riveted. …because the dynamics constantly had a cat/mouse quality to it. …You’re interested in the characters and their relation to each other. …Very stark and edgy, too. Lorraine James
LA BONNE DAME
"…tantalizingly introspective text," Carl Paris, Attitude; "The text…drew on a succinct but extremely effective choice of Sand's words," Jennie Schulman, Back Stage
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MOMENT
"It is convincing in its psychology and in its narrative structure, and its concerns are important and valid…. The play is a valuable addition to Prairie dramatic literature," Jamie Portman, Southam (National) News Services; "A thorny play...intelligently written," Michael Sommers, Back Stage
GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play
"...off-off-Broadway is most renowned as the arena of the new playwright. Learn about [Mary Humphrey Baldridge's] skills with dialogue and plot...in GENESIS...mounted with style and skill at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse," Peter Filichia, Theater Week
...the play does have a brooding intensity that not only builds to a creepy finale, but pays off intellectually as we see the idea for "Frankenstein" get patched together in Mary's mind. ...Perhaps Genesis' strongestvirtue is in showing that social stigmas can maintain a chokehold over human desires, even among the wanton leisure class. By God, it is The Real World.
This Week On Stage, NYC
"The power Baldridge evoked in the scenes of tension and love between Shelley and his wife, the macabre portrait she painted of Lord Byron and excellent characterizations of their hangers-on Polidori and Claire, contributed to the drama's popular and critical success," Eric Dawson, Performing Arts (Canada).
...the play does have a brooding intensity that not only builds to a creepy finale, but pays off intellectually as we see the idea for "Frankenstein" get patched together in Mary's mind. ...Perhaps Genesis' strongestvirtue is in showing that social stigmas can maintain a chokehold over human desires, even among the wanton leisure class. By God, it is The Real World.
This Week On Stage, NYC
"The power Baldridge evoked in the scenes of tension and love between Shelley and his wife, the macabre portrait she painted of Lord Byron and excellent characterizations of their hangers-on Polidori and Claire, contributed to the drama's popular and critical success," Eric Dawson, Performing Arts (Canada).