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What Boston's top theatre critics are saying about Gurnet Theate Project's ESSENTIAL SELF-DEFENSE now playing at the BCA...

"A lively Boston premiere" - The Boston Globe

"The cast are so uniformly excellent..." - Edge Boston

"Did I mention there's a rock band on stage? And they're kickin'!" - Theater Mirror

"[Chelsea] Cipolla is gosh-darn cute as Sadie" - The Boston Herald

"In the lead roles, Chelsea Cipolla and Adam Garcia do wonders to instill cartoonishly sketched characters with a touching humanity. Cipolla is a dimpled emissary of optimism, and Garcia brings nice shadings to Yul's gradual, and never quite complete, normalization." - The Boston Globe

"Director Brian C. Fahey stresses the eccentricity in the script, getting witty, wacky performances from Garcia, Cipolla, Rachel Hunt as the hostess with the mostest at an original-song-only karaoke club and from Foster Johns as a wild Russian poet. Brett Marks is very scary as the butcher whose bark is worse than his handshake. Everyone in the production makes ESSENTIAL SELF-DEFENSE well, essential to see." - Theater Mirror

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