“Every night of the week in Chicago, you can see someone’s life story told or read aloud to you, from a stage. They’re bite-sized and endearing, they’re a good reason to leave the house. This show, though, is a reminder of what you can do with a life story when you push the work harder and farther, all the way to the edges.”

“MIKE MOTHER weaves in and out of the present moment and current reality, leaving in its wake open wounds, left gaping so they can be pointed at and acknowledged that they gape on purpose by their poetic author, all of it charged by the electricity coming off of a very energetic opening night crowd. The Neos’ community knows best about the strength and vulnerability required for their brand of immediacy.”

“[Jessica Anne] marries her tale to a genuine theatrical fiction—Marsha Norman’s ‘Night, Mother—which she by turns respects, inverts, and subverts. [...] it’s funny, cunning, witty, literally splashy, and exhilarating in its reckless reverence for the truth. ”

“The gifted storyteller provides a provocative narrative [...] quirky, quizzical, mélange of a journey. ”