Locales slide in and out, isolated, symbolic. Riccio also breaks the frame of the proscenium by having Trent, playwright-cum-detective-cum everyman, sit on the edge of the stage and talk to us and exit and enter through the audience, our space, one of us.

Director T. Riccio controls the play's changing styles with a sure hand. the play moves swiftly, cinematically (we're in a detective move, after all), with slides setting locale, sometimes filling the scrim it an image and its mirror, reinforcing the doubleness of the arguments. It's a looking glass world, where logic has floated free of truth and words mean what you want them to.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer

A funhouse of effects, through which director Tom Riccio has guided his characters with a fanciful but strong and almost unerring hand.

Northern Ohio Live Magazine

T. Riccio's direction is decisive and well paced, and the produciton is full of excellent performances.

The Cleveland Edition

 

The large cast of 17 players are all in fine tune. T. Riccio directs smartly, presenting us with an old fashioned mood piece. He understands Kopit's point and helps drive it home. "End of the World" is a play everyone should.

The Sun Times