Los Angeles NoHo Arts Center
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“Intensely funny! You are in for a treat!”
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"Go see it!"
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"CRITIC'S CHOICE! Funny and thought-provoking! Superb performances! Finely-tuned staging...hilariously theatrical!"
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"Audiences are not likely to find a more literate and thougth-provoking production currently playing in the L.A. area. Go!"
— Candyce Columbus, LA Theater Examiner
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Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy are Irresistible in 'Discord' "Resist not this play. It's smart, funny and good for the spirit!"
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Discord: A Breakfast Club for Grown Ups "'Discord' is tremendous good fun. The brilliant dialogue should qualify as a special effect, triggering as it does a delightful display of intellectual fireworks."
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The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson...Preaches Tolerance "Strong acting, design, and writing enliven Noho Arts Center's entertaining, thought-provoking world premiere production of 'The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord.'"
— Mary Mallory, Tolucan Times
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"It opens your mind, forces you to address your own thoughts on free will and morality and leaves you wondering, "What does happen when we die -- if anything at all?"
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"The ultimate hypothesis of how genius might be made to endure the afterlife feels remarkably on point, and deeply satisfying."
Across America
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“Expect to be left with questions at the end of this witty, thoughtful and engaging show.”
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“Entertaining and intriguing! You'll laugh and you'll ponder."
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"Along the way, audience members are unwittingly tasked with looking inward as well, to see where their own beliefs lie, amid the questions raised. And that is the beauty of theater, which holds a mirror to society and beckons it accountable."
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"Carter...has a knack for penning dialogue that dances with rich, smart humor."
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"The audience—including this critic—were rapt throughout. Major credit is due to Carter’s literate, witty and deeply felt script, which offers not philosophical mouthpieces but rather plausible, three-dimensional characters. "
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Now almost ten years old, “Discord” also presents a timely vivisection of patriotism and religion,"
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"If you like a play that keeps you thinking and talking for hours afterward you may have to go a long way to find a more provocative play than this one."
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"A play that is easily accessible to any literate adult, but a funny one as well… a fresh and thought-provoking piece of intellectual theatre.”
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“A comedy of ideas filled with intellectual banter and provocative discussion… For 95 minutes, it is nothing less than interesting and occasionally very exhilarating.”
Andrew Beck – Examiner.com
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New List Item“Scott Carter’s script blends a parodist’s spitball in the eye of the revered icon with a comedy writer’s ear for the one-two punchline. Byam Stevens, moves his delightfully mismatched cast efficiently through the play’s 100-minute journey from pride (and sundry other deadly sins) to, yes folks, redemption.”
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“In the end, each is forced by the other two to get to the heart of the matter, painfully acknowledge the hypocrisies in their respective lives, the gaps between their words and the lifestyles they actually led… It’s a compelling moment.”
