“Janki has taken an evening that can be a bit disjointed and tied it together nicely with a ribbon of current social commentary. They were only a few small changes to achieve this, but effective ones. Taking one section of "On the Deck of a Spanish Sailing Ship" and translating one repeated line into the languages of notable immigrants over the years. Staging "King of the World" in a modern-day prison as sung by an incarcerated black man. And most powerfully, taking "The Flagmaker" which is typically looking at war through the eyes of flag maker Betsy Ross as she waits for her family to come home, and turning it into a black mother wondering if her son will come home on any given evening and as she sings, projecting the images of the mothers of people of color who have been killed by the police.”

“Rather than dealing in the abstract, this staging, directed by Devanand Janki, conceives of each piece as befitting specific circumstances, and beams them onto viewers with hyper-realistic staging and imposing projections.”