Unholy

NNNN - Diane Flacks’s probe of religion’s impact on women will make you think...The idea of four women debating God’s worth doesn’t sound like it has much theatrical potential, but with the intellectually engaging Unholy, Diane Flacks has devised a canny piece with a ton of political resonance.

NOW Magazine

★★★★/5 stars - Diane Flacks has written exactly the right play to see right now. [Unholy is] intellectually stimulating and, surprisingly given the subject matter, also very funny. ‘Should Feminists Abandon Religion?’ is the stated question of the play to which Flacks, in this age of political shouting contests, thankfully gives a complex, measured, finely nuanced response.

Stage Door
Christopher Hoile

★★★ ½ stars out of 4…it’s at times moving and, at others, surprisingly steamy.

The Globe and Mail
J. Kelly Nestruck

Diane Flacks’ newest play is a grab bag of contemporary references and completely immersed in the social and political conversation of 2017.

Toronto Star

…a battle of scripture interpretation, points of religious and secular law, wit and conscience—conducted with sharp intelligence and humour.

lifewithmorecowbell.com

'Unholy' is a remarkably funny and intellectually stimulating play about feminism, religion and tolerance and serves as a balm to all the hate-based discussion of these topics one encounters nowadays in all forms of media… you can’t help leaving the show without feeling a greater understanding for the differing religious or areligious points of view of others. In achieving that, especially in times like these, Flacks has done an immeasurable service, and one can only hope that her play reaches the widest possible audience.

Stage Door
Christopher Hoile

(Flacks) has managed an ending that to me, at least, was perfect. It was at once open-ended and a satisfactory conclusion, as well as being theatrically powerful.

Mooney on Theatre