PRESS
THE ALCHEMIST - THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE, DC - November 2009
“…the nuggets to enjoy here come in the many characters who parade in and out of the townhouse where the con men set up camp to fleece the locals with their cash-for-alchemy scheme. Though one of the smallest parts, Robert Creighton as the diminutive and aggressively suspicious Ananias, for example, steals every scene with an abject silliness that is no doubt harder to pull off than it looks.”
“There are pleasures to be mined in the specifically physical comedy of the easily roused evangelical - Robert Creighton’s explosive Deacon Ananias.”
“Particularly magnetic is the excitable deacon Ananias (Robert Creighton), who fizzes with fits of holy faith like a shaken soda can.”
“…but it is Robert Creighton's Ananias, the repressed, far-right Southern-accented deacon with slicked down hair, somber suit and Nazi-like heel clicks who walks away with the evening.”