WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
“Director Jeris Donovan has her team [for The Setup] well-prepared. They balance bone-dry wit and earnest emotion, calm contemplation with outburst. ”
"It's comedy, but it's real life," says Taylor. "We can take things that happened or can happen to you, turn them into joy, and send them back to you." - Improv Noir Is an Oasis for Black Performers and Audiences in the Too-White World of Improv Comedy"
“What’s interesting and amazing about sketch is that it’s immediate,” Melzer said. “These are N.C. voices reacting to N.C. now.”
" A team of local comedians, writers, and actors try to mend broken funnybones with this Second City-style revue, promising topical satire and jocular jabs at our "Tweeter in Chief" from diverse perspectives...Two months into our preposterous president's reign of terror against truth, dignity, and other quaint American pastimes, you almost have to laugh. —Brian Howe
INDYWEEK
[The duality of] silliness vs. substance serves as a theme for the entire show. Though the sketches aren’t really related, there is a feeling of catharsis that runs throughout, as if the unarticulated political angst of the past two months is being dissipated via wordplay and pratfalls."
—Patrick Tutwiler
WRAL OUT AND ABOUT
