"NO" is a profoundly impactful and urgently relevant performance piece. It appears to be a brave and necessary exploration of personal trauma, the societal pressures that silence individuals, and the journey towards reclaiming one's voice. The decision to frame it as a "gendered issue" elevates its message, making it resonate beyond individual experience to address a broader, systemic problem....
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It feels strange, and almost reductive, to call a performance "brave," and it's a word I don't often use when talking about a show. But there's really no other word for NO.
It's a show that lays a single performer completely bare to a maximal emotional degree. Recreating not just personal experience but a whole system of abuses, expectations, and microaggressions through an amalgamation of slam poetry, soundscaping, and kinetic movement unlike anything I've really seen before. I am not exaggerating when I say I was moved to literal tears....
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This is the best kind of Fringe show, and if there is any justice will be nominated in a ton of categories. I came to the show knowing next to nothing about it, and the performer blew me away. One of the most original, well executed and cerebral pieces I've seen in a long time. We need more art like this. ...
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ERNEST KEARNEYstage and cinemacertified reviewerJune 28, 2025
A riveting, minimalistic dissertation on the social pressures exerted on all of us to be agreeable, positive, and passive to the point of evaporation. A mesmerizing motion poem of how the media can provide either a mechanism of liberation for an individual or entomb them. ...
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I was mesmerized by the precision of the .movement and sounds this actress created in the space. I could not take my eyes off her and really felt all emotion she was going through in telling her story. To me a women empowerment story quite universal told in a unique way...
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