Toxic Misogyny Meets Its Match in Aurora Theatre In Berkeley

          "...Rebecca Dines is a breath of fresh air as Tekla when she finally arrives, charismatic, playful and keenly perceptive......Tekla handles all this secondhand venom with cool, collected self-assurance......It’s all terribly cruel and mean-spirited and destructive, but here again what saves it is Tekla.  People may bad-mouth her all play long - and they do - but she’s so self-evidently better than her detractors are at life that the damage they do proves nothing...except how poisonous sour grapes can be."  

-  Sam Hurwitt, Mercury News  [Full Review]

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          "...Strindberg’s notorious misogyny gets one of its most vivid manifestations in “Creditors”....Dines gives the flirtatious, playful Tekla the self-possession, the steely will, to transcend the playwright's limitations." - Lily Janek, San Francisco Chronicle

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          "Which brings us to the third and best side of the triangle: Rebecca Dines as the much-talked-about Tekla......it seems impossible she'll live up to expectations...But Dines blows that problem right out of the water within seconds with a powerful and emphatically motivated presence.  It's a little amazing the stage doesn't tip a bit to one side in response to her magnetism."  -  Adam Brinklow, Edge Media Network

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          "...the always wonderfully expressive and resourceful Rebecca Dines...When Tekla arrives on the scene, the dynamics change; she’s a force of nature...Dines makes every second count."  - Jean Schiffman, SF Examiner

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The High Price of Toxic Masculinity

          "...it almost goes without saying that Rebecca Dines steals the show...Like Tekla herself, Dines isn’t worried about some man’s description of her so much as her humanity. She imbues Tekla with playful confidence, graceful sexiness, and stunning heartbreak...This may be one of the first plays I’ve seen this year, but Dines has already given one of the best performances."  - Charles Lewis,  the thinking man's idiot.com