Crumble Reviews

Now that we are two weekends in, people are starting to talk. People.. who write for things on the interweb. For the most part, I like what I'm reading. My favorite - seeing our photo shoot pictures IN PRINT in USC's newspaper, The Daily Trojan. The review was by no means golden literature (due to some contradictions and faulty logic) but the IN PRINT aspect made the whole thing so romantic. Newspapers are like men who never leave the house without a hat. Neither the item nor the style are necessary anymore; technology and social customs have changed all that, but don't they just scream classic? Tangent. Anyway, here's some pulled SHELLY IS AWESOME quotes and links to the full reviews. I'll keep adding to this as they come out!

"Shelly Hacco (who also produced) delivers a standout performance as a grieving, borderline-manic adolescent.  Her comic timing is pitch-perfect in those early scenes that depict the ridge between herself and her mother thereby setting up the story’s conflict.  Even after the laughs subside, the aura of anxiety, left onstage for the actors to work with by her tornado-like tirades, is tangible." - LIFE IN LA PUBLISHING
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"The most haunting moments are centered around Hacco, who plays a convincing 11-year old oddball who creates satanic tea parties for her dolls." - DAILY TROJAN
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"Hacco’s Janice is an impressive mix of irrational and sympathetic. She grasps the pre-teen gait without making it too much of a caricature." - FRONTIERS IN LA
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"Shelly Hacco is believable as the precocious but unhappy Janice, whose ostracization at school and unhappiness at home have driven her to live in a primitive, hallucinatory state." -BC BLOG CRITICS (STAGE MAGE)
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"Spectacular acting skills from the likes of Stephen Kline as the Apartment and Heidi Rhodes as the mother, along with Shelly Hacco as Janice, only make this difficult and painful production a truly beautiful piece of art." - THE CALIFORNIA THEATRE CRITIC
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"It was the best play I’ve seen in Los Angeles." - LA SPLASH
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GOOD TIMES!