Reviews

When is a Clock

"...there’s a monologue that deserves to be enshrined in some kind of hall of fame: it’s savvy and preposterous and utterly original...appealingly abnormal..."

-Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

"Tantalizing and fascinating." 

-Martin Denton, www.nytheatre.com

The Most Wonderful Love

"Talk about taking a cleaver to the Cleavers. The mid-American family at the heart of Matthew Freeman's fearless new satire, "The Most Wonderful Love," is decidedly fractured when the play begins. By the time it's over, a complete dismemberment has been performed...as savage as any slasher film." 

-Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

"The Most Wonderful Love is awesomely anarchic, gleefully taking potshots and/or turning on their ear all manner of sacred cows. That it does so without ever sacrificing its fundamental intelligence and integrity, and without ever really getting angry or shrill, makes it a particularly impressive achievement." 

-Martin Denton, www.nytheatre.com

The Death of King Arthur

The playwright is a 25-year-old named Matthew Freeman who has brashly tried to tell the back half of the Camelot tale as Shakespeare might have. Amazingly, he has largely succeeded, rendering the familiar story of honor and betrayal in an iambic pentameter that, at its best, is both lyrical and clear.

-Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

Reasons for Moving

"Reasons for Moving is a dark, brooding, intimate, very personal drama about contemporary middle-aged American men in crisis. It's compelling, intense, discomfiting, even a little scary. And it marks Freeman as a writer of enormous promise, range, and maturity."

-Martin Denton, www.nytheatre.com

The Great Escape

"Freeman's writing is remarkably strong here—vivid and exact and astonishingly far reaching."

-Martin Dention, www.nytheatre.com

The Americans

"...a sad, stirring, introspective piece..."  

-Martin Denton, www.nytheatre.com

An Interview with the Author

""It's smart and hilarious, which won't surprise Freeman's fans; it's also, apart from its obvious parody of the central notions of pretentious theatre in general and this festival in particular, a devastating satire of the current culture of introspection and self-flagellation."

-Martin Denton, www.nytheatre.com

Publications

When is a Clock - Samuel French, Inc.

The Death of King Arthur - Playscripts, Inc.

Genesis in PLAYING WITH CANONS

The Death of King Arthur in PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2002

Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men

Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens

60 Seconds to Shine Volume 1: 221 One-Minute Monologues for Men