Opera/New Music Theater
"Its funny, its serious, its compellingly scored and brilliantly performed...a culmination of all the promise the group has shown...Director Robert Woodruff and the three magnetic performers pack the show with inventive sight gags and surreal vignettes that play off the text and score to create a three-ring circus of sights and sounds...It's audacious and it's brilliant, pioneering its own form of political music theater."
—Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Examiner
"Satire, devastating messages and yes, controversy this year surround the Paul Dresher Ensemble's PIONEER…The Dresher Ensemble has given '80s avant-garde a purpose…PIONEER also happens to be wonderful theater. It oozes irony, it is fast-paced and superbly written, and it demonstrates total command of the technical aspects of staging. It is also enormously innovative…brilliant work."
—Barbara Zuck, The Columbus Dispatch
