Column Chronicles: Critics review 'The Idiot Jury'

Critics review 'The Idiot Jury'

Frank Cotolo
October 2, 2025

Here are the reviews of "The Idiot Jury," the play in three acts presented in the three prior entries of this blog series.

Hershel Kinderberry -- Neatly placed metaphors crawl to the surface in this hairbrained play mocking the system while applauding the ignorance of strangers.

Shiela Bumpsted -- Without knowing the names of the characters, this brilliant collection of wandering brain malfunctioning is delightful and disgusting at the same time.

Wisker Oppie -- Much like a Shakespearean tragedy, the play pulls at the short and curlies of the audience who sadly indentify with various quirks of the jurors.

Georgia Jones -- Watching it, one doesn't know whether to laugh or cry until mid-play when we laugh and it turns to tears.

Ed Scanty -- Disturbing genius at work.

Una Servantonian -- The many conjectures one makes at this play's conclusion only goes to prove the outrageous tenderness of the human heart before surgery.

Yul Brigadoon -- I was bereft and then bewildered until I lost track of be-being anything. Juror 5 steals the stage with lofty wickedness and remarkable guff.

S.S. Endercott -- A dirty dozen characters perform like a pipe organ plays a Bach sonata underwater. Easily the death of the theater is forecast in each act.

Gilles McGilles -- A Scottish playwright once said that no two characters are snowflakes that look alike and this play ensures that whiskey must be an important part of anyone's writing process.

Alberta Province -- Not any dozen of creeps could pull off the intensity of this play. Careful casting presented actors convincing the audience it never wants to be subjected to these types performing again on a single stage. Drug testing must be insisted upon before the cast takes the stage.

Kay Rude -- I could've watched seven more acts and not be bored by the dozen jurors cleverly called idots in the title as each one serves portions of genius no other cast has presented on stage in the history of presenting actors live on stage.

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