Below are some of our favorite excerpts from the Boston Globe’s review of State vs. Natasha Banina. We thank them for their review, and we have provided a link below to read it in full.
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“There’s an awful lot happening within that enclosed space in “State vs. Natasha Banina,” a marriage of theater and film that was live-streamed Sunday night in a world premiere that added up to an intriguing, if flawed, experiment.
[…] Denisova’s mesmerizing portrayal of a 16-year-old Russian orphan on trial for attempted manslaughter helps to rescue “State vs. Natasha Banina” from the Lifetime-movie-style melodrama and bathos toward which it periodically veers.”
Just last week Golyak and Denisova won Elliot Norton Awards from the Boston Theater Critics Association as outstanding director and outstanding actress for their work in “The Stone,” which also won for outstanding production.
In other words, they’re a very potent team, whether working onstage or — as with “State vs. Natasha Banina” — in that strange, still-developing space between stage and screen.”