“The Jazzterpiece, in which she does not perform, is similarly rich, at once serious and playful, formally challenging and emotionally persuasive.” Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader “It’s difficult to imagine where Barrie Cole learned to write plays. While most young playwrights work overtime to excise any hint of ambiguity from their scripts, writing as though television sitcoms were the pinnacle of literary achievement in Western Culture, Cole revels in strangeness. Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader “….a little hurricane of intelligence barely contained by flurries of images and repeated phrases.” Carol Burbank, Chicago Reader “Cole onstage is relentlessly articulate. She has a keen way of defying expectations with her words.” Max Sparber, City Pages “Cole’s characters seem too crazy to be real and too real to be made up. A fascinating piece of theater.” Kristen Tillotsin, Minneapolis, Star Tribune “She can romanticize with words, but injustices snake their way through the coiling complexities of her vocal experiments.” Lucia Mauro, Chicago Sun-Times “What Cole ultimately inspires here is audience exhaustion, not boredom— and it takes a playwright of no small resources to walk that fine line.” Nick Green, Chicago Reader