“It is a wild experience to watch...’The Appointment’ isn’t a straightforward polemic. What it captures, instead, is the surreal and maddening emotional logic of the discourse.”
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“ ‘The Appointment’ is neither ridiculous enough nor dramatic enough for the juxtaposition between the extremes to really resonate.”
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It's an evening of obvious gags and elevated decibel levels. Exactly why everyone involved feels the need to ride the nerves of audience members who are surely in sympathy with their arguments remains unclear. But The Appointment overwhelms its best moments with crass, badly executed comic bits designed to overturn the clichés peddled by abortion's most disingenuous opponents. The collegiate sketch show-approach of a profoundly divisive issue is dispiriting; you can only get so far on attitude before some wit is also required.
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“There are many, many outrageous moments in ’The Appointment,’ the wonderfully squirm-inducing abortion-themed satirical musical from Lightning Rod Special.”
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The show—mainly a series of often leadenly satirical songs, dances, and sketches performed by the fetuses—never engages in polemics. Whatever you take away regarding the creators’ position on abortion is up to you to decide for yourself, just as you’ll have to figure out the purpose of scenes like the one in which a Thanksgiving dinner goes awry when a family of fetuses is shocked when their fetus turkey comes back to life, even making prophetic statements.
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“The ensemble of actors scores so brilliantly in their big musical numbers, and in their improvisational scenes, that the humor and musicality turn us around.”
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"What you will definitely not feel after this remarkable phantasmagoria is clearheaded. Or smug, or righteous, or vindicated in your beliefs, no matter what they are, about an endlessly divisive subject...Unfolded in a series of songs and sketches, this production implicitly pushes arguments for and against abortion to their extreme limits...This thoughtful, profoundly imaginative show concludes in a silence that is all the more eloquent for the sound and the fury that preceded it."
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"A feverish explosion of the abortion debate that replaces rigid political views with a visceral exploration of the emotions that fuel both sides...When they’re playing fetuses, the seven performers are consummate clowns who know how to manage the crowd...But they also draw you into the show’s less heightened moments...Most of 'The Appointment' is open to interpretation...But although it jolts and excites discussion, its silent finale cuts through the noise."
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