Reviews of our video

"The play was an intense, one-on-one encounter with a series of five serial murderers. The video provided an in-your-face quality I would have missed from the back row of a theater. I was spellbound."

The Wall Street Journal (read the full review)

"... a fine work of art, beautifully directed, imaginatively conceived, and brilliantly executed."

Jack Olsen
(called "the dean of true crime authors" by the Washington Post and the New York Daily News)

"Mass Murder is deliciously dark fringe theater at its best.... Fine acting and intense monologue bring unmistakable electricity to the stage and the killers portrayed ... Eric Mayer effortlessly held me in his spell, as he captured Ted Bundy's boyish charm, attractive exterior and the emptiness, frustration, and hatred, which simmered beneath his outer surface ... This exceptional film will leave you with an object lesson of how little you need for terror beyond a darkened stage and a serial killer's presence."

Serial Killer Archive
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Reviews of the production shot by StageDirect

"Fine acting and occasionally brilliant writing make this evening of monologues shared by post-rampage serial killers an intense and, at points, extremely disturbing work. Standout performances include Eric Mayer's Ted Bundy and Alicia Barta's Nurse Genene Jones, both of which help the production achieve a rare squirm factor. It's more than a little disquieting to have an actor aptly portraying both the all-American charm and the psychopathic denial of Bundy peer out into the audience and look you straight in the eye: 'How are you tonight? Is your seat comfortable?'"

Seattle Weekly

Reviews of other stage productions (also directed by Jeff Meyers)

"Our folklore is built from scraps of crime. It behooves Hollywood and publishers to make certain our insatiable bloodlust lasts, and it's this, the sensationalizing of torment in popular culture, which [creator] Jeff Meyers wants to analyze. Meyers and his fellow writers give voice to our twisted icons.... Far from crazed heroes, they are the off-scourings of a brutal culture; mad cousins kept in America's attic. All the monologues are strong.... [T]his is potent theater."

Willamette Week

"...'Mass Murder' ... proved to be engaging. It's also disturbing. The monologues include Ted Bundy, the Night Stalker ... and others convicted of killing lots of people. The ... writers take advantage of this material to get at the key issue - why - and concoct some vivid moments onstage."

The Oregonian

"Theatre Vertigo repeats its series of monologues based on the lives of such serial killers as Ted Bundy [and] the Night Stalker.... The show developed a cult following when it premiered last year...."

The Oregonian

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