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CLICK HERE FOR RECENT REVIEWS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER CLICK ON PLAY FOR AUDIENCE REVIEWS FOR THAT PLAY Abducted Action! Asian for Dummies Ball and Daisy Chain Can You See Me? Certain Things... Chinese Clown Cabaret Cincinatti Come Fly With Me Nude Comedy on the Square divagation Faker Flame and the Stone Flower Murderer Framework Future Folkloric Hollywoodland Home/Darkness Hooray for Speech... It's Stupid to Steal... Late Night With God Long-Form Improv &... m.i. blue's TWILITE... Magic @ the Fringe Moliere Than Thou nEO-sURREALISTS Present Other American Stories Oui Be Negroes PAIN Quarter Into It Rabbit Causes Dog Rap Canterbury Tales Reframing the Hourglass Short and Sweet... some life Subhuman-True Tales... This Love Train... Thrilling Adventures... Tonight: The Harsh … Under the Counter... Viva Karaoke!... Viva Vivi Wrestling an Alligator Young War Zeppelin Beach Improv		Play: Flower Murderer Reviewer: Kensek Reviewer Email: Rating: 4 Stars Powerful solo performance by Stevenson. For most of the performance, you feel as if she's speaking directly to you. Intense, piercing look. A number of members of the audience came up to her to compliment her after the performance. Much heavier in tone than the solo performance of Faker. Worth seeing. Only a few bits bordered on something somewhat less than "pretentious" Play: Flower Murderer Reviewer: Mia Paschal Reviewer Email: Rating: None I enjoyed Flower Murderer. I saw it a few days ago, and so many of Sabrina's characters just stayed with me. It was a pleasure to watch her on stage, and, while all of her characters were interesting, I really loved the roommate note scene (hilarious!), the Baha'i transvestite, the elderly lady speaking about age and aging. And I absolutely loved the Flower Murderer piece! Lovely, impressive work, and lovely writing - subtle and powerful. Play: Flower Murderer Reviewer: Lisa D. Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars Just thought i would address the anonymous "review" giving this show two stars while I had a moment. There was nothing "no-no" about Sabrina's use of a few steps to create two characters -- the moments spent moving between characters actually provided some of the humor and pathos in the scene. Anyone who is sitting in judgement of the use of spare methods to convey a sense of space and character just ends up missing this great show. And as someone who has seen her punk band, I just wish she had brought it along in addition, not instead of. A really great talent. Play: Flower Murderer Reviewer: Dave Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars Saw this play and was amazed. I was turned on by the chronicle review and it could not have been more correct. I was mesmerized from start to finish. I really think Sabrina is incredibly talented and versatile, and I walked away enriched. Play: Flower murderer Reviewer: Reviewer Email: Rating: 2 Stars Theater class excercises. Solo performer non-no's: walking several steps across the stage back and forth, over and over again to have a conversation with herself. I wish she'd brought her punk band instead. Play: Flower Murderer Reviewer: Dee Jeffrey Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars Sabrina Stevenson's Flower Murderer is a one hour Zen experience. I was completely drawn in by her poetry, her actions, her characters. There is a startling clarity to her words and characterizations. Her monologues and scenes are brief yet somehow pack in entire lifetimes of experience into only a few moments. Her ability to shift characters so quickly and seamlessly puts the audience on a roller coaster while she seems to glide from person to person, place to place. The laughter from the comic moments comes from a very deep place, as does the recognition of some of the trials of life found in her characters. I heard audible sighs at the end of each piece, as if we had held our breath through each moment, recognized its truth, and prepared to be drawn in once again. Sabrina Stevenson is an amazing talent -- as a writer, as an actor, as a poet and as a creator of space and time. Play: The Flower Murderer Reviewer: A. Larson Reviewer Email: annl@itsa.ucsf.edu Rating: 5 Stars The Flower Murderer surprised me. I must say I wasn't sure about it at first, but I was quickly engaged into the psyches of all the bizarre characters Sabrina portrays and what they had to say. Great writing. Quirky stage presence. I loved it. Very funny! A must see show. Play: Flower Murderer Reviewer: jes_fine Reviewer Email: Rating: 4 Stars Well acted, and at times intense , series of character portraits. Definitely worth seeing , but if you've been doing a lot of light hearted fare be prepared to shift gears. Play: Flower Murderer Reviewer: Tim Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars Wow! Really creative stuff. I was held suspended in each of the little worlds she created. It's thick with irony, love and vulnerability. One of those shows that exposes the things people really think, deep underneath, when they dare expose them to the light