"Critic's Pick! “While You Were Partying” does not offer answers. It burrows under the skin like a parasite. There has not been a day since I saw this show when I did not think about it."
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"If you have a heart for downtown experimental theater, while you were partying may be the defibrillator you need. Soho Rep’s first production since the shutdown is a short, sharp shock of a play: an unsettling, creepily funny 50-minute exploration of anger, created by writer-director-performers Julia Mounsey and Peter Mills Weiss in collaboration with comedian Brian Fiddyment."
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"And that certainly has to do with the heavy subject matter addressed in while you were partying, which is not some hand-wringing examination of how toxic men like Brian are created. Rather, it delves into our disdain and exposes it for self-loathing. It entertains the suspicion among many in our bloated creative class that an expensive university education wasn't actually a better investment than swords and Bitcoin. And it considers how our very American notions of merit and free will can be easily humbled by fate, say, in the form of a pandemic. That's a story worth telling — but I still don't think an actor needs to bleed in order to get there."
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"Instead of katanas, though, this trio of young millennials has clearly been studying the history of avant-garde theater (perhaps the early work of Wallace Shawn and the Wooster Group). And rather than channel their enthusiasm into more modern endeavors like film, web series or podcasts, they are exploring the boundaries and limits of live performance in a way that can’t easily be replicated in other media."
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