“Marlene Wallace gave an astonishing and wonderful performance with impressive skill, authority, and humanity. It was a moving and consummately skillful performance. I am glad to have had a chance to see her operate in such a perfect sphere.”
“Sam Shepard’s True West is a tale of two brothers. Or so I thought. Director Thomas G. Waites has cast two women, Marlene Wallace and Sarah Jackson, as the siblings whose rivalry explodes in violence. Though they usually fight their battles with words, can women convincingly wreak havoc on each other? Yes, they can. Two women show themselves as capable as their male counterparts of destroying everything in sight. You’ve come a long way, baby.”
“… and Indigo Productions has instead cast two very talented women, Marlene Wallace as Lee and Sarah Jackson as Austin. Indigo Production’s version of True West is in no way a feminized version of the story. Those girls have balls. Thomas G. Waites has directed a very true version of True West and once you are seated in the theater, the role-reversed casting becomes unnoticeable. The actresses are totally believable as two siblings, each of whom wants what the other has.”
BEYOND THERAPY
“… a wonderful cast: Kurt Bauccio as Bruce and Marlene Wallace (also amazing in True West) as Prudence. Everyone on stage was absolutely hysterical. The actors were obviously having a blast, depicting every bizarre personality disorder known to man.”
PONZI MAN
“Marlene Wallace was a major power of the play. Sensitive, assured and overwhelmingly talented, Wallace dominated all her scenes. She delivered a superb tragicomic performance.”
“Marlene Wallace had a strong stage presence. She displayed a multidimensional talent blended with vigor, substance, and intelligence. Her performance added effervescence, vitality, realism, and depth to the mechanism of the play.”
