"He bases his adaptation on the knowledge that our bodies instinctively crave order, that from infancy on we try to control the world's scale and proportions. That's why the dwarfs and giants of folk tales are powerful; likewise the fantasies of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll. (Not to mention the centuries of false claims that because women were smaller than men, they must be inferior to them.)" (NYTimes | Theater Review | 'Mabou Mines Dollhouse': Fun-House Proportions Turn Dominance Upside Down)

"Walk into a performance of a work about James Joyce's daughter, whose erratic behavior led her to be institutionalized for almost half a century, and you expect something a bit impenetrable. You get it at ''Cara Lucia,'' a dense but intriguing theater piece by the Mabou Mines troupe having its world premiere at the Here Arts Center in the South Village."(NYTimes | Theater Review | James Joyce's Daughter, Scars and All)

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