THE GABRIEL FAMILY PLAYS: HUNGRY / WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? / WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE THE PUBLIC THEATER | Richard Nelson (writer & director); Jason Ardizzone-West & Susan Hilferty (set design); Susan Hilferty (costume design); Jennifer Tipton (lighting designer); Scott Lehrer (sound designer); Theresa Flanagan (production stage manager); Jeff Harris (production management); Claire Kavanah (props master).

PRESS

WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE

"...That Chekhovian sense of time fading even as we inhabit it thrums through both the talk and the silences. This is all the truer because the team of designers here - Susan Hilferty and Jason Ardizzone-West (set), Jennifer Tipton (lighting) and Scott Lehrer and Will Pickens (sound) - have made the Gabriels' kitchen into what feels like a warm corner of never-ending security. And yet we're abidingly aware that this house may well be demolished within the year."
-New York Times

"Again, in contrast to all the election racket outside, watching this group move around the cozy space - designed with unfussy authenticity by Susan Hilferty and Jason Ardizzone-West - making shepherd's pie, pouring a beer or glazing cookies, is quite therapeutic."
-The Hollywood Reporter

WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?

"Designed by Susan Hilferty and Jason Ardizzone-West, with lighting by Jennifer Tipton and sound by Scott Lehrer and Will Pickens, the kitchen set is first seen as an anonymous space. Then the cast members arrive, bearing plates of food and boxes of papers and photographs. In a twinkling, the kitchen assumes a richly detailed personality, the kind a room acquires over many years. And yet it has all materialized so fast. Which suggests it could disappear just as quickly."
-New York Times

HUNGRY

"As befits a work with the title “Hungry,” food is prepared — ardently and aromatically — in the wonderful new play written and directed by Richard Nelson, which opened on Friday night at the Public Theater. Yet it is unlikely that the ratatouille and apple crumble on offer will satisfy the appetites of the five women and one man assembled in a snug kitchen in Rhinebeck, N.Y...."
-New York Times

"The design team — Susan Hilferty (sets and costume), Jason Ardizzone-West (sets), Jennifer Tipton (lighting), and Scott Lehrer and Will Pickens (sound) — creates a recognizable kitchen atmosphere in a middle-class family home. There are no walls, but we know exactly what everything looks like...."
-Theater Mania