"Technology is too often a gimmick, but in 'Top Secret,' technology is the show’s mode of delivery and its subject. And, as so often happens in real life, technology was the bane of my experience, with numerous glitches...The most compelling part of the show is the way it turns audience members into actors—a staple of thrillers in which a clueless bystander is suddenly thrown into a crazy plot. But the shenanigans here are more sedate, like trying to pass on a note to another would-be spy."
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"Feels rather disorganized, with interviews playing in your head while you’re remembering where to walk to next, interrupted by brief cursory dealings with the art around you. None of it coheres into anything more than a vaguely intelligent rambling discussion of high-tech surveillance...Yes, it’s a confusing mess, though not a boring one...The experience of jumbling all these ideas while guiding the audience through various steps was not a satisfying one as play or intellectual exercise."
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"An ambitious new form of documentary theater…The metatheatrical marvel of this show is that it processes you as you process the Egyptian artifacts on display…Your mission as a spy is a pretense, meant to engage you in the play’s documentary materials. And it’s a deviously smart ploy. By teaching its participants to think like a spy, 'Top Secret' hopes to untangle the covert tactics of the international intelligence community."
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