Mercy

Really great characters and a deep and heartfelt story. Tough emotional moments were staged beautifully and tasteful. I know it was a staged reading but to me it could've been a full production with 2 more weeks of rehearsal.... full review

I laugh and I cried so much, I loved all characters, extremely recommended, this play touched my heart, so wonderful to be there!... full review

Mandi Riggi’s play Mercy, performed for just three days at the Broadwater Theatre in Hollywood as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, is a masterpiece. Throughout many scenes, Riggi’s language rises to the level of poetry. The play centers around the relationships of a British-Iranian family in London with an opening salvo that the matriarch of this family has gone “missing.” What follows immediately are crisp and insightful scenes that go back in time to slowly divulge to the audience how issues of world history, religious and cultural beliefs and spirituality come together as the audience not only experiences the “answer” to the play’s opening mystery, but is drawn masterfully into these times of world history with wars ragin... full review

Mercy's story and subject matter are very interesting. The acting is first-rate. ... full review

Amazing acting.... full review

Moving performance from Sheila Ommi It has depth, humor, tragedy all intervened in an emotionally moving narrative. ... full review

"Mercy" is a wonderfully well-written story with a very talented cast. I was immediately drawn in from the opening moment and really enjoyed the unfolding of the mystery around this totally relatable (if a bit dysfunctional) multi-cultural/multi-religious/multi-generational family, as they dealt with the sudden unexpected disappearance of their mother.... full review