“If you see only one play... about reflexive non-binary relations, make it this one”
-Los Angeles Times
“If you see only one play this year about reflexive nonbinary relations, make it this one.”
-Los Angeles Times
“★★★★… no fewer than 30 roles with gusto”
-TimeOut New York
“De Cari is animated onstage, and inhabits no fewer than 30 roles with gusto. She bounds from moments of depression to those of elation and triumph, each rendered on an empty stage that hints at the countless stories similar to hers but untold.”
-TimeOut New York
"Any thinking person will be enticed by its universal themes..."
-Blast Magazine
-Blast Magazine
“Funny and insightful…hilarious characters…riveting… go see this show!”
-Curtain Up
“Funny and insightful one-woman show … replete with hilarious characters … The story is riveting … she can make a reading of her math thesis compelling! Kudos to Gioia, and go see this show!”
-Curtain Up
“True hilarity… serious topics of gender inequality, gender bias, and expectations”
– ExperienceLA.com
"Her story is filled with moments of true hilarity, but crosses often and deftly into serious topics of gender inequality, gender bias, and expectations - society's and her own."
– ExperienceLA.com
“Snappy writer… sincere and entertaining”
-Boston Herald
“De Cari is an earnest performer and a snappy writer … sincere and entertaining … quick and passionate … she’s an ace at taking on the story’s 30-odd characters.”
-Boston Herald
“Hilarious… rich and wry reductio ad absurdum”
-Edge Boston
“Hilarious one-woman show … De Cari nails not only accents and postures but the presence of each of her impersonations … opts for the refreshing delights of humor, even compassion, and creates a rich and wry reductio ad absurdum.”
-EDGE Boston
“Appealing and nimble-witted performer”
-Boston Globe
“De Cari is an appealing and nimble-witted performer… a kind of wide-eyed Alice-in-Numberland”
-Boston Globe
“Intimate, challenging, and playful… force and meaningful élan”
-Open Media Boston
“This wonderful show … intimate, challenging, and playful … is full of humor, sadness, anger, intellectual stultification, and intellectual ecstasy. She charmingly morphs from individual-to-individual and gender-to-gender with seamless grace and ease. She shocks with her big and beautiful voice when it’s least expected and crawls, capers, and strides about the stage with force and meaningful élan.”
-Open Media Boston
“One-Woman tour de force… 20+ Characters”
-Blast Magazine
“This one-woman tour de force blasts through our often unconscious misconceptions of gender and academia with honesty, wit, and energetic exploration of life’s variables … any thinking person will be enticed by its universal themes as well as by De Cari’s effortless impressions of … the 20 plus characters she takes on in the academic circus.”
-Blast Magazine
“De Cari… drew huge laughs from the audience”
-Waterloo News
“De Cari’s comedic impressions of the eccentric characters she encountered at MIT are where Truth Values really shines. She drew huge laughs from the audience as she introduced them to the graduate students and professors who made her time at MIT alternately inspiring and miserable, including a cluelessly amorous officemate, a fellow researcher with nihilistic dreams of nuclear destruction and a Gilbert and Sullivan-loving professor who mentored her through both her research and her fledgling performing arts career. .”