"Borinsky invites guesses; the problem is that we might not care enough for any of the people or ideas onstage to bother hazarding them."
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“It's unclear what the author is chasing, maybe intentionally. Either way, it’s hard to see the forest through ‘The Trees.’”
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“If you’re not in the mood to let your mind dance along to its particular tune, you may find ‘The Trees’ exhausting, but there’s a challenging playfulness at work.”
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“When so many new plays preach against the obvious ills of our times, or peddle televisual reality, let’s cherish the dreamers and subverters, queering the form so our imagination can climb to the highest branches.”
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“The play has a great deal to say about the environment and our relationship to it, the way we treat and mistreat it...’The Trees’ is a beautifully bizarre piece of theater that is both deeply moving and extremely thought-provoking.”
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“Borinsky advocates for a kinder, gentler kind of playwriting, citing a Marxist critic who urges against using ‘dread as a dramaturgical instrument.’ (The playwright also says, ‘I'm not great at writing plot,’ which may be the understatement of the year.) Thus, the play offers no action but plenty of whimsies and musings about life that, untethered from anything, struggle to stand up on their own.”
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“Maybe ‘The Trees’ will be poplar; a good many seemed to find it more than oaky-doke. To which I say, lucky for yew. Me, I'm stumped.”
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“The truth is that I spent much of my time watching ‘The Trees’ trying to understand what playwright Borinsky was getting at...I even went so far as to think the play is arguing in favor of saving our disappearing forests.”
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