GOOD GRIEF VINEYARD THEATRE, NYC | Ngozi Anyanwu (playwright); Awoye Timpo (director); Jason Ardizzone-West (set designer); Andy Jean (costume designer); Oona Curly (lighting designer); Daniel Kluger (sound designer); Oberon K. A. Adjepong, Ngozi Anyanwu, Nnamdi Asomugha, Patrice Johnson Chevannes, Hunter Parrish, Ian Quinlan, Lisa Ramirez (actors); Andrew Diaz (props master); Alyssa K Howard (production stage manager); Cynthia Cahill (production manager); Audible (co-producer); DR Theatrical Management (general manager); Anton Volovsek (associate set designer); Jack Dobens (model builder).

PRESS

NEW YORK MAGAZINE REVIEW
"…with theatrical agility and emotional intelligence, it’s exploring not what grief actually looks like but what it feels like form the inside, the weird internal labyrinth that we’re forced to navigate in the wake of a great loss… Nkechi’s story takes place in Bensalem, Pennsylvania… but Jason Ardizzone-West’s scenic design doesn’t give us the suburbs of Bucks County. Instead, the set is a kind of mind palace, where sliding panels that create the simple shape of a house, as a child might draw one, move back and forth in a split-level space of platforms and stairs… Timpo and her team have created a living space, in which neurons fire and boundaries shift and memories coalesce and disperse like smoke. It’s Nkechi’s psyche that we’re inside of…”
New York Magazine (Sara Holdren)

TIMES SQUARE CHRONICLES REVIEW
“There’s a surprising depth to what first appeared as a fairly two-dimensional stage design by Jason Ardizzone-West, but with a blinding white light shining in the dark, the geometrical sliding walls of memory and time refocus our mind’s eye to lean in and “just listen”… That layering is beautifully crafted and stylistically poetic in Anyanwu’s profound and touching new play, Good Grief. She takes us on a journey from here to there and back, through the complex maze of memories filled to the brim with pain and loss of a young and beautiful man who helped such love and devotion for a young lady in need. It’s adventurous and jumbled, yet even when it doesn’t exactly shed light on the subject, we are reminded throughout that grief is convoluted and messy, but needed to find the good.”
Times Square Chronicles (Ross)

THEATER IS EASY REVIEW
“Awoye TImpo’s direction tackles the disjointed timeline easily, with pacing and staging that makes perfect sense, allowing the audience to follow the story without any confusion. The scenic design (Jason Ardizzone-West) fits with the setting, which is to say it’s not naturalistic but rather a bit cosmic, and is the exact right fit for the story, complimented by Oona Curley’s gorgeous lighting design.”
Theater is Easy (Sarah Moore)