As brought to life at the Guthrie, it is always entertaining, always engrossing, and always brilliant. The only disgrace, if you see it, is to not bring company – if you haven’t gotten the message already, you’ll want to talk about the play afterwards.
News & Reviews
Below are critical reviews and news stories featuring Marcela and her productions.
In the production’s opening scene, a ship’s sails billow above the stage of the OSF’s Elizabethan Theatre, where sailors stand on the deck of the cargo ship Pharaon. They sway with the rise and fall of the sea, alerting us of Lorca’s penchant for filling the stage with movement. A guest director at OSF, she […]
Review: ‘Monte Cristo’ moves beyond the thrills, Mail Tribune, June 15, 2015
Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning script is well served by the talented actresses who play sisters Lenny (Maggie Chestovich), Meg (Georgia Cohen) and Babe (Ashley Rose Montondo) as director Marcela Lorca plumbs the unique differences between the colorful trio, who clearly love each other dearly in spite of striking sparks whenever they come together.
‘Crimes of the Heart’ review: Guthrie Theater does right by play, Pioneer Press, May 12, 2014
Marcela shares her director notes for The Count of Monte Cristo, at the 2015 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Director Notes: A Tale of Love, Revenge and Mercy, Youtube, June 2, 2015
The reviews have been breathless, calling the production “compelling” and “masterful.”
Article: ‘Caroline’ remount a hit in (upstate) New York, The Star Tribune, February 10, 2012
In “Thebes,” Steele and director Marcela Lorca aim to stage a show that uses music and movement to support Seamus Heaney’s poetic adaptation of “Antigone.”
Hum a Few Bars of ‘Antigone’, The Star Tribune, October 4, 2011
This is the first time I’d seen a play where the audience literally gasps.
STAGE REVIEW: ‘Disgraced’ at McCarter Theatre, centraljersey.com, October 20, 2016
Happily, the McCarter Theatre Center’s mounting of “Disgraced”– its New Jersey premiere, and the play’s first area staging since an acclaimed 2014-15 Broadway run — does full justice to the snap, crackle and pop of Akhtar’s provocations.
Pulitzer-winner ‘Disgraced’ pushes all the right buttons at the McCarter, NJ.com, October 17, 2016
Marcela Lorca’s Guthrie production hearkens to the roots of Greek drama, with music, movement and a chorus that both narrates and participates in the tragedy as citizens of Thebes. Click here to read the full review
Review: ‘Burial at Thebes’ is a classic for good reason, October 4, 2011
director Marcela Lorca effortlessly guides the audience from scene to scene. Even when past and present are on the stage at the same time, the use of lighting and set design keeps the audience perfectly in tune to what is going on.