From Canadian Stage 2011

Kim Hughes EYE WEEKLY
"The performances are terrific. Akosua Amo-Adem, Antonio Cayonne, Jessica Greenberg and Kevin Walker awe with their ability to slip instantly into these various characters living at the shelter. They make us believe, bringing these stories to life with understated ease." more

Robert Cushman THE NATIONAL POST
"The way these kids talk can give you hope. Like them, the play makes painfully but not depressingly clear, we need it." more

Naomi Skwarna NOW MAGAZINE "NNNN - If you missed The Middle Place at SummerWorks 2009, now's your chance to catch Project: Humanity's bold and funny verbatim project filled with the voices of people living and working in a Rexdale youth shelter." more

Interview on CBC's Here and Now
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Paula Citron for CLASSICAL 96.3
"The play is an inside look at today's homeless youth. It's a social issue that can't be ignored. For that reason alone, The Middle Place deserves a shelf life." more

Steve Fisher TORONTOIST "Kushnir has done an extraordinary thing in weaving all the material together and presenting the varying experiences of his subjects. Their stories resonate in the telling, and offer a rare and humanizing glimpse into an understandably guarded and mistrustful community." more

From Summerworks 2009

J. Kelly Nestruck THE GLOBE AND MAIL

"The Middle Place is an eye-opening, intelligent and funny piece of verbatim theatre that shines a light on Toronto's problems with truth in a way that other recent plays have failed to with fiction." more

Robert Cushman THE NATIONAL POST

"Interestingly, the five actors read the transcripts but didn't see the footage, so they had to create rather than impersonate. The results, under Alan Dilworth's direction, are remarkable, both imaginative and respectful: factually-based but more than dramatized social work." more

Jon Kaplan NOW MAGAZINE

"The results are moving, eye-opening and filled with hope, as the talented ensemble cast morphs from one character to another under the expert direction of Alan Dilworth. One of the festival's winning productions." more

Paula Citron for CLASSICAL 96.3FM

"Kushnir's play manages to be both engaging and disturbing." more

Lucy Allen MOONEYONTHEATRE.COM

"The Middle Place is a glimpse into a world that many often ignore. It is, above all else, the stories of a group of people with fears, hopes and dreams as real as our own." more

Lynn Slotkin CBC Radio

"Kushnir has distilled 400 pages of transcriptions and shaped them into a moving, funny, sobering look at a world that is all too real that we might want to ignore." "Director Alan Dilworth and his fine, accomplished cast have brought every character to life with care, detail, and tremendous heart." more