Reviews

“This play is delicate, compact and compelling. Visiting Mr. Green by the American writer Jeff Baron is a powerful play about the ways rigid beliefs can lead to disaster. Baron provides insight into human closed-mindedness without being preachy or heavy-handed.”

VOLKSKRANT (Holland)

“A cannily crafted comedy-melodrama about friendship, family, open-mindedness and forgiveness. Baron’s play runs like a well-oiled express. A feel-good winner.”

NEW YORK NEWSDAY

“Apart from its considerable wit and understanding, the strength of Visiting Mr. Green is the rich tapestry it weaves from the characters’ lives. Visiting Mr. Green is thoughtful and absorbing.”

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

“This piece is deliciously topical. It is universal, impactful, important. A masterpiece that will stay with you for a long time.”

LE MAGUE (Paris)

“Visiting Mr. Green has the taste of real life. It is written in a concise form, alive with surprises. It’s no wonder that Baron’s play has become a real theatre hit around the world. The theme is this: let us accept one another as we are. This is the only way we can get through life’s difficulties and arrive at the same ending as the play – a hint of happy possibilities. Klockriketeatern has a treasure in its hands.”

HELSINGIN SANOMAT (Finland)

“Visiting Mr. Green is one of the most moving, entertaining and mesmerizing productions I have seen for a while. The script is intelligent and sharp, balancing the emotional effects with awesome dexterity. Baron tickles our funny bone, then proceeds to drain the audience with moments of electrifying emotion. See this.”

REVOLVER MAGAZINE (Australia)

“The joys of Visiting Mr. Green are many. The script has warmth, wit and wisdom. Jeff Baron plays out the story like an expert fisherman playing out his line just enough to keep the bait interesting. An audience hangs on every word and eagerly awaits the next bit of information about these two eminently interesting characters.”

THE BERGEN NEWS (U.S.)

“Far from delivering an earnest homily, Baron uses his sometimes gentle, sometimes sharp brand of humour to devastating effect. Both funny and poignant, Visiting Mr. Green is a piece of theatre made in heaven.”

YORKSHIRE POST (England)

“Jeff Baron’s comedy-drama is an emotional, insightful odyssey that deals with generational conflict, the trials and terrors of aging, social and sexual mores, and religion. Visiting Mr. Green ends with a beginning, the kind of beginning that adds to its universal appeal.”

DENVER POST

“Jeff Baron plays his cards right in the not-too-sentimental Visiting Mr. Green. He finds drama in everyday life. Brought together by chance, two solitary men show the healing power of simple friendship.”

PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY 

“The story develops from an insignificant chance meeting into a riveting psychodrama. The audience applauded and stamped its approval for a brief, yet intense evening of theater.”

AACHENER ZEITUNG (Germany)

“Baron tells his tale with a discerning freshness and originality, without a misstep and without recourse to easy sentimentality. It unfolds with taste and wit. You’d need a heart of stone not to be moved by the ending. Visiting Mr. Green is one of the best shows around.”

CHICAGO DAILY HERALD

“Jeff Baron’s sublime and understated play examines the exorbitant cost of intolerance. As their relationship develops, the two men divulge secrets for which each has exacted a profound price and which could also destroy their tenuous bond in Baron’s clever allegory on the need for an emotional link between parents and their children.”

LA WEEKLY

“It is only once in a long while that a play arrives in town unheralded and proves itself to be such a gem that it holds you in its thrall from beginning to end. Visiting Mr. Green is just such a work and one which will shine in the memory for years to come.”

THE JOHANNESBURG STAR

“I was gripped and moved by this play, and found its final moments overwhelmingly affecting. The second act pushes the play into dramatic territory reminiscent of King Lear. A sentimental King Lear perhaps, but the play’s analysis of the strength and apparent cruelty of devout faith reveals Jeff Baron to be a dramatist capable of toughness and rigour as well as the three-Kleenex weepie. The moment when these two men suddenly recognise themselves in each other is theatre at its potent best.”

LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH

“The play is not merely about opposites finding a mutual point of agreement. It’s about honest, inner fears and prejudices, hurts, imagined and real, and most of all, tolerance and acceptance – an excellent play.”

THE CATHOLIC WEEKLY

“How beautiful is Visiting Mr. Green. An extremely human piece about the differences that separate us, the connections that unite us, the losses that could have been avoided, and yes, religion as a breaking factor for those who have been between a rock and a hard place with their faith on one side and their reality on the other. No one needs to be a Jew to understand it, because what tenses them, unites them and separates them is completely universal. How timely when so many of us need the warmth of affection, the sigh of a loving moment.” ★★★★★

EL AQUELARRE (Mexico)

“This tale of religious, social and family traditions, love and loyalty, prejudice and persecution, and secret emotions and lives is, like life, funny and sad, but more importantly, a rewarding evening of fine theater. Alive with humor and insight.”

POST-STANDARD (Syracuse, NY)

“An intimate and prodigious tragi-comedy that knows how to scratch the soul and engage the audience completely.”

LA GAZZETA (Italy)

“A modern classic like this comes along once in a blue moon. A crowd pleaser, pure and simple.”

IN THEATRE (NYC)

“An exciting and brilliant human comedy in which laughter and sadness are intertwined. It describes with heartbreaking precision the soul of an elderly man.”

MOTKE (Israel)

“The story is touching and poignant. It begins as a comedy of generation gaps and misunderstandings but as the audience laughter dies down, it evolves into a moving and involving drama.The play is significant on so many levels. It explores prejudice, parent and child relationships, co-dependency, tradition, religion, loneliness and modernity, without taking away any entertainment value. Visiting Mr. Green is a short, neat creation with a well written plot that offers a gently comical and thought-provoking night out. Well recommended. “

MG MAGAZINE (England)

“Jeff Baron crafted a piece that is extraordinarily beautiful in its emotions. Visiting Mr. Green is a situation play with texture. It is soft, sweet and extremely emotional. Its plot flows on that texture, a simple story and a logical and natural message. Baron attains agility in the dialogue, witty moments and tender brush strokes. He achieves a perfect balance in subtlety, which seems easy, but it is not.”

LA NACION (Argentina)

“Visites à Mr Green is, very simply, a great, beautiful, essential moment of theatre. It grabs us at the beginning and doesn’t let us go until the end.”

Dominique Perez, FRANCE SOIR

“In Visiting Mr. Green, playwright Jeff Baron deftly explores themes of familial alienation, bitterness, generation gaps, loneliness and understanding oneself while accepting the quirks of others. Throw in issues of tradition and religion and it begins to sound like serious stuff, but Baron does it in an engaging, often quite humorous way that has made his play an award-winning audience pleaser that theater companies all over the world are rushing to present.”

WASHINGTON POST

“In Visiting Mr. Green, Baron presents the perfect balance – giving the impression of weightlessness while making some profound observations. A play that is revelatory of character with almost every word spoken, it also has an aura of familiarity – you may not have known these two men, but you have known someone, somewhere that is like some aspect of each of them. Run, don’t walk, to visit Mr. Green. This show is not to be missed.”

OTTAWA CITIZEN (Canada)

“A deeply moving tale that takes the two characters on an unexpectedly intimate journey of self discovery, Visiting Mr. Green is a play that takes no prisoners. This play will touch you to the core. The work is crafted with an immensely sophisticated understanding of these people and this generation. It’s worth a visit to Mr. Green.”

THE ARTS AT LARGE (South Africa)

“In Jeff Baron’s Visiting Mr. Green, crisp, easy dialogue, wit and the complexity of relationships form an enduring core. One delights in the form and the structure of the piece and even its understated resolution. It has the feel of a good old Hollywood movie.”

GANNETT SUBURBAN NEWSPAPERS

“Good writing, insightful direction, gifted performances. A must watch.”

BOMBAY TIMES

“Lessons were learned. Lives were changed. Worlds were rocked. Long-held notions were shattered. Boys became men. That’s what happens when you’re Visiting Mr. Green. Audiences leave whole, happy and fulfilled.”

NAPLES NEWS (Florida)