The Amoralists Theatre Company

The Pied Piper of the Lower East Side (Redux)

Top Ten, The New York Post (2009)
Top Ten, TimeOut New York (2009)
Top Ten, Just Shows To Go You (2009)
Top Ten, JamesSpeak.blogspot (2009)

“What I particularly loved about the show was that Ahonen takes these four people and their dreams seriously. .The Pied Pipers is fast, funny, raucous and in-your-face. .It’s cast is 110% committed. I’ll certainly follow the Amoralists’ work from now on.”
-The New York Post

“The satiric thrust of the work is so on target. .Pity the lovers of this sort of rollercoaster-ride, in-your-face, freewheeling theatrical experience who are out of town for the summer. .Ahonen starts with what seems to be a hippie-era slice of life, but artfully steers his play into something far more. .The funniest onstage nudity in recent memory.”
-Variety

“Deservedly extended and what long, shaggy, exhilarating ride it is. Rendered with brassy verve. vigorous cast members.”
-The New York Times

“The young company’s deep commitment and contagious exuberance brings to mind the vitality that distinguished the early Off-Off Broadway work of artists like Sam Shepard only a generation ago.”
-The New Yorker

“The happiest surprise of the season. Ahonen has written full, complex characters, and the committed cast approaches them with sincerity and heart. This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side makes you want to follow the Amoralists wherever they go next.”
-Time Out New York

“The most exciting theatre I’ve seen in quite a while. The sheer scope of this piece-touching on religion, environmentalism, economics, anarchy, vegetarianism, sexuality, and much more-makes it endlessly admirable. .The six actors give bold, thoughtful performances.”
-NYTheatre.com

“The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side manages to entertain, educate, and titillate.”
-BackStage

“I left wondering what, exactly, Ahonen was trying to say: is he idealizing these people and their lifestyle? Is he trying to show that it can’t work? Or is he making a point about what society does to idealism, and what happens when idealism has to square with the real world around it? The realism of the play he and his talented cast have created makes it such that the answer is, actually, I’d think, all three.”
-Broadway World

“Derek Ahonen’s fascinating new play, which he has also directed, is a rare creature among the world of Off-Off-Broadway- it is superb.”
-The Off Off Broadway Review