LA WEEKLY REVIEWS

"What's remarkable about writer/performer Alan Aymie's one-man show Child's Play is the super-abundant energy, tight scripting and furious pacing - so fast the audience can barely keep up as Aymie morphs into a disparate cast of characters. With his spitfire delivery, the indefatigable performer never misses a beat, careening from an estranged girlfriend bearing his child to an unctuous paternity lawyer, a no-nonsense-talking cousin back in New York and in a distinctly uncomic about face, to the brutally dysfunctional kids he teaches. Aymie's performance is quite electric....

Alan Aymie's moving semi-autobiographical, Child's Play is a testimony to the travails of adult responsibilities and fatherhood. Aymie deftly creates a montage of intriguing characters while telling of life as an impoverished artist who's about to become a father. Because Aymie instills a full-bodied, infectious humanity into his characters."