Praise for THE BERLIN DIARIES
“Izadorius Tortuga insured The Berlin Diaries maintained a vigorous sense of movement and energy. Making full use of every element of the stage and occasionally having the actors directly engage the audience, he injected the project with laudable creative vitality… (and) shrewd ingenuity.”
- Mitchel Oldham, Stage and Cinema
“Masterful direction… Ingenious.”
- Sarz Maxwell, Buzz Center Stage
“Thoughtful and strategic direction”
- Debra Davy, Splash Magazine
“This production has a truly talented guest Director at its helm to provide his vision and to guide his actors. Izadorius Tortuga makes his Chicago Directing debut and, based on his intelligent and dynamic concept for bringing this script to life, I look forward to seeing more from this young man.”
- Colin Douglas, Chicago Theatre Review
“Tortuga does a skillful job in his Chicago directing debut… The personal stories and European history come alive.”
- Nancy S Bishop, Third Coast Review
“Izadorius Tortuga’s staging of the Chicago premiere… rewards patience… The two actors negotiate the small space and the quicksilver shifts in character with sturdy and unfussy aplomb, and though the set by Viscaya Wilson is of necessity minimal, it incorporates effective visual markers (and sometimes heartrending reveals) of the story Stolowitz finds during her year’s sojourn in Berlin.”
- Kerry Reid, Chicago Reader
The Berlin Diaries at Open Space Arts, production photos by Victor Yang
