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“Funny, imaginative and possessed of a furious energy that makes it spin like a top, go off in all directions like a Catherine Wheel and leave you gasping for breath.... You escape from its nonsensical brilliance to the slightly less demented real world with a sense of relief, only to find that many of its clouds have a Nicky Silver lining”—John Simon, New York

“Raised in Captivity is about guilt, redemption and self-punishment, and against all odds, it is also very funny....[Mr. Silver has created a theatrical world as mannered and self-contained as that of Oscar Wilde. But it goes way beyond the reflexive, knowing irony common to hip American comedy today. There is an anguished heart beneath all that artifice.... There are elements that recall John Guare, Spalding Gray and particularly Christopher Durang. But the total effect is of a strong, wonderfully idiosyncratic voice that has come firmly into its own.... [Silver’s] dialogue has the shimmer of an opal. And it has been paced with the surest rhythms of any playwright since David Mamet....Archly absurdist comedies come cheap these days. Finding one with depth of feeling is truly a cause to celebrate.”

—Ben Brantley, New York Times

“No doubt about it. Nicky Silver is an original playwright, a quirky, offbeat writer with a distinctive voice....Out of high-strung troubles, Silver builds a play about love and the desperate attempts people make to find it. The playwright’s language is fast, funny and, when you least expect it, poignant.”

—Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press

“By a mile, the best new play of the season.... The world according to Nicky Silver is farcically deranged. On the brittle surface of things, his wit possesses the unexpected rhythm and artifice of Noel Coward. But what’s going on beneath the dazzling pace and comedy is closer to the subversive social satires of the late Joe Orton, and Mr. Silver is the only American dramatist I know who merits the lofty tribute, though his loopy, original voice is very much his own.”.

—John Heilpern, New York Observer