TOASTED, 2006
“Although many one-person shows come off as self-indulgent, DeCarlo’s piece is harrowing and hysterical, and rightly reveals as much about her troubled past as it does about the murderer’s. Don’t worry though; she’s not going to hurt you. She may be a killer performer, but she’s not a killer.”
Raven Snook
– The L Magazine, July 2006
CERVIX WITH A SMILE, 2005
“A packed house roaring with laughter"
Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
"DeCarlo looks like a demure homemaker who's destroyed more homes than she's made. A sharp satirist and a skilled actor.”
Robert Avila, San Francisco Bay Guardian
Bay Guardian’s Critics’ Choice for the 2005 San Francisco Fringe Festival
“DeCarlo, a rubber-faced comedian with wide eyes and a broad smile, takes on both sexes,”
Andy Propst, Backstage
“This twisted spectacle will only be a jaw-dropping surprise to those who didn't see DeCarlo's one-woman show in last year's MITF, TOASTED. Anyone who saw TOASTED is aware that DeCarlo's way with a story - in both the writing and the delivery - is entirely her own, and the bases are always loaded even when you're not sure who's up at bat.”
Matthew Murray, Talkinbroadway.com
TOASTED, 2004
“A riveting theatrical achievement that will linger in your memory long after the show is over. “
Theatermania.com
“She doesn’t present herself as a hero crusading for justice, but rather as a confused woman attempting to do the right thing. That she happens to be a performance artist makes solo performance—the very medium she claims to dislike, with all of its messiness and exhibitionistic connotations—the natural medium in which to share her story. And that her story provides such messy, eerie, funny shades of self-dramatization in all of its characters and situations is what makes the performance a fascinating one to behold.”
Jeffrey Lewonczyk, nytheatre.com
TOASTED, 2003
“Pure Solo Dynamite!”
Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
I LOVE DRUGS, 1997
“Though solo performers are a dime a gross these days, this hasn't translated into a surplus of great shows. That's why Elisa DeCarlo's bracingly honest one-woman tragicomedy is such a treat. One woman plays all the members in an extended dysfunctional family--DeCarlo avoids the easy laughs and instead portrays each character with a vivid realism usually found in larger cast dramas. The funny thing is, for all her raw intensity, DeCarlo's still hilarious.”
Jack Helbig, "Critic's Choice,” Chicago Reader |
