"...McElwain's script is strong, and the cast is uniformly excellent -- believable and poignant...a very promising debut for McElwain."

– eye weekly
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April 7, 2005

NNN  "...Alison McElwain's double entendres and creative stage direction kick the humour up a notch."

– NOW Magazine
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April 7, 2005

“LAST HOUSE is a very enjoyable outing. McElwain is clearly the newest member of Canada’s distinguished and select community of writers of farce. She has a keen nose for both humorous dialogue and bizarre situations, and manages to keep all her characters on different wavelengths for the entire dizzying course of the play."

– Paula Citron,
Classical 96.3 FM
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April 5, 2005

"LAST HOUSE CALL – Alison McElwain's new comedy worth a drop-in visit

With the most theatres in town straining at the seams this week, there were bound to be a few things that slipped through the cracks.
 
None that we regret missing more, however, than Last House, a new comedy from playwright Alison McElwain, who also directs. A production of Dorothy Said Theatre!, it opened earlier this weekend at the Theatre Centre.
 
It's not that we know a lot about the play or the playwright, although press notes like — "The family that blows up beaver dams together stays together. Or something like that." — are certainly eye-catching.
 
It's just that, like a lot of discerning theatre fans, we've learned that when you see Oliver Dennis' name on a cast list, this time teamed with Margot Dionne, Jody Hewston, Tricia Lahde and Michael Simpson, it's usually a sure sign of something interesting."

– Toronto Sun
April 3, 2005

"ARTS BEST BET – LAST HOUSE
Dorothy Said Theatre makes its first venture onto the Toronto theatre landscape with Last House, a family-centred comedy by Alison McElwain. With actors culled from companies ranging from Soulpepper to Stratford, the story follows a family in various stages of unravelling: a father and son both find themselves out of work, a daughter who has just left her job as a nurse and a mother struggling to deal with the disorienting move from city to cottage..."

– Eye Magazine
March 31, 2005
(see newspaper listing)

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