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• Event Name: Not Enough Air
  Article: A murder, a playwright, and the creative process
  Boston Globe/Boston.com - Feb 22, 2010
  By Louise Kennedy

  CAMBRIDGE - Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 play, “Machinal,’’ is a masterpiece of American Expressionism that was nearly forgotten until the 1990s....
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  CAMBRIDGE - Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 play, “Machinal,’’ is a masterpiece of American Expressionism that was nearly forgotten until the 1990s. With any luck, local playwright Masha Obolensky’s finely crafted play about “Machinal’’ and Treadwell, “Not Enough Air,’’ won’t suffer the same fate
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• Event Name: Not Enough Air
  Article: ‘Not Enough Air’ is breathtaking
  Boston Herald - Feb 22, 2010
  By Jenna Scherer

  The act of writing is seldom as romantic or dramatic as portrayed in popular media. You know the trope: a divinely inspired author sits at his...
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  The act of writing is seldom as romantic or dramatic as portrayed in popular media. You know the trope: a divinely inspired author sits at his typewriter with a flourish and beats out a story like a symphony.
  
  No, the act of creation is a lot messier and uglier than that. In Masha Obolensky’s “Not Enough Air,” the writing process is portrayed in all its grotesque, compulsive fervor. It’s based on a true story, but Obolensky knows that, once in your head, the shadows of real people tend to take on a life of their own.
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• Event Name: Not Enough Air
  "Time to Murder and Create"
  Review posted by: Bill Marx/The Arts Fuse from Somerville, MA, Feb 27, 2010
  

  Unsurprisingly, "Not Enough Air" teems with interrogatives, many of its scenes punctuated with performers proffering staccato Whos, Hows, and Whys. Masha Obolensky’s compelling play explores the... Expand

  Unsurprisingly, "Not Enough Air" teems with interrogatives, many of its scenes punctuated with performers proffering staccato Whos, Hows, and Whys. Masha Obolensky’s compelling play explores the evolution of "Machinal," the celebrated 1928 expressionist drama by journalist/playwright Sophie Treadwell, which was inspired by questions raised by the notorious Ruth Snyder/Judd Gray murder trial—why did this woman kill? And why the pitiless and sensational media stalking of Snyder, the first woman sentenced to death by electrocution? Collapse

• Event Name: Not Enough Air
  "Not Enough Air is Not To Be Missed"
  Review posted by: Jill Geiger from Newton, MA, Feb 23, 2010
  

  A great show on many levels. The story/subject matter is fascinating and thought-provoking and the production is excellent - very well-acted and very well-staged. The precise lighting changes... Expand

  A great show on many levels. The story/subject matter is fascinating and thought-provoking and the production is excellent - very well-acted and very well-staged. The precise lighting changes accompanying the scene changes contribute to the mood evoked by what's happening and the time period in which the story takes place. Collapse