"Carl Hancock Rux's 'Talk', a parody of a panel discussion, tackled racial paradoxes with refreshing zeal, following its multiracial academic characters on a wild-goose chase as they try to pin down the identity of an enigmatic black writer."

Village Voice

"Talk is the most intellectually ambitious play in years. It wins the case for a renewed theatre of ideas."

Time Out

"Mr. Rux has a fertile imagination and exceptional talent."

Wall Street Journal

"A dazzling play. Mr. Rux's ideas have the urgency and passion of actions. He draws on satire, rhetoric, naturalism (the kind that Strindberg said 'seeks out the points where great battles take place') and poetry."

New York Times

"Carl Hancock Rux's riveting off-Broadway 'Talk,' (is) an ambitious play of ideas...Rux's intellectual tour de force, (is) a formidably erudite and eloquent meditation on the strife between art and politics, race and reason. (Rux) courageously mixes experimental theater, Greek choruses, jazz-like rhetorical improvisation, post-structuralist theory, hip-hop and popular culture into a heady brew of critical reflection on Western intellectual life over the last 70 years. My brain teemed days after I left the theater."

Micheal Eric Dyson, author of "Open Mike; Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion"