“…[a] dense and fascinating new play…a play about stories, beginning in historical fact and spinning outward…DESCRIBE THE NIGHT feels like a vital attempt to hold a mirror up to the former Soviet Union. And since Joseph is an American playwright, it’s also a mirror in which we might see ourselves.” —NY Magazine. “…[a] brilliant play…The play is its own vivid, perfectly paced patchwork of memory, lies, and revelations. Raw confrontation and violence share the same orbit as flashes of magical realism…The play uses much mirroring of past and present to subtle and powerful effect.” —The Daily Beast. “…Joseph weaves a compelling narrative from the yarn of bespoke reality…It’s the kind of historical revisionism that is thrilling onstage, but deadly in government…DESCRIBE THE NIGHT is much more than an engrossing tall tale, however: It heroically wrestles with the slippery nature of truth itself, and unnervingly demonstrates why its alternatives are so seductive.” —TheaterMania.com.
