Press
"Clever and refreshingly honest...In the mundane brutality of The Refugees, Kaliski lays bare the tangle of history, diplomacy, and politics that separates the Cuban defector from the Honduran border-crosser. Most refugees will have had little to no control over the circumstances that placed them into one category or another. In that way, the fatalist Greeks have something to teach Americans as we nervously stride into the 21st century clinging to our notion of free will and hoping to bend the arc of history toward justice." -Zachary Stewart, Theatermania
"Although Refugees may sound like an earnest, even preachy exercise on paper, Mr. Kaliski — wielding a deft mix of skepticism and whimsy, without getting too flighty or cynical — portrays both the issues at hand and the people divided over them as maddeningly complicated." -Elysa Gardner, The New York Sun
"Movingly clear-sighted...Clytemnestra, in a reflective moment, says that we are 'smart enough to grow, / too stupid to sustain." This pithy observation might strike one as all too true, but it also gestures to only one part of the inextricable anger, pleasure, guilt, despair, and hope of trying to live in ethical relation to others and to the planet that this production captures so well and so impactfully." -John R. Ziegler and Leah Richards, Thinking Theater NYC
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