"From the very first moments of 'Septimus and Clarissa,' Ellen McLaughlin's relentlessly, almost nerve-rackingly ambitious adaptation of Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway,' a bold visual gauntlet is thrown down.  We are introduced to the title characters…as they pose atop and underneath a giant black staircase.  Later, yards and yards of fabric from Mrs. Dalloway's much-discussed green party dress billow from high above, turning it's wearer into a melancholy figurehead on a ship to nowhere.

…the airtight ensemble combines with Keith Parham's shadowy lighting and Susan Zeeman Rogers's set design to create a series of insightful, often haunting stage pictures…'Septimus and Clarissa' finds hypnotic poetry in the ordinary, the solemn, the rapturous and just about everything in between. "

"Integral to this sweep of post-WWI London is Susan Zeeman Rogers's set design:  a towering iron staircase, wheeled and whirled about the space. "

"…and the set and property design by Susan Zeeman Rogers spare and smart. "