Extremities
"Alissa Cordeiro [Marjorie] is excellent as the sympathetic victim, and as later as the strong vengeful woman, you want to root for, as she attempts to bring her own brand of vigilante justice to bear on her attacker. The depth and range she brought to the character of Marjorie...is riveting to watch throughout every scene."
- David Tompkins, BroadwayWorld
"The acting team is phenomenal. Alissa Cordeiro as Marjorie and Padraig Sullivan as the intruder both have character arcs that leave them broken by the end of the play and it’s incredible to see how both navigate those reversals of fortune. The changes seem to happen so incrementally, so subtlety, as to be almost non-existent. It’s not until the end that you realize just how far they’ve gone...Cordeiro manages to make us feel her desperation as her character’s day spirals out of control.
It feels somewhat perverse to call a play like this thrilling, but when a theater company nails a play the way AKA Theatre nails this one, the result is thrilling."
- Jamie Wilkinson, Rabbit Reviews Boston
"The play is heavily laden with fight choreography. A great deal of trust and dexterity is required from the roles of Marjorie and Joe in order to execute their assaults. Both Cordeiro and Sullivan demonstrate restraint and flexibility while executing complicated staging under the scrutinizing gaze of the audience. They aren’t easy to watch. Assault shouldn’t be.
I don’t think Extremities is the kind of play one is supposed to find entertaining. Yet, it is important storytelling. It is feminist and courageous. It honors the survival of others by offering an alternative ending to an all to common conclusion."
- Kitty Drexel, New England Theatre Geek
"Alissa Cordeiro handles Marjorie’s transformation with admirable control, perfectly manipulating her physicality, words, and emotions to the brink of over-acting, but never beyond the line. The result is a performance buzzing with freneticism, imagining trauma as a chaotic, dangerous force...Watching these four actors at the top of their game is a treat; watching them work together with incredible fluidity and cohesion, even more so.
Sacrificing neither political power nor aesthetic prowess, Extremities is a tightly-constructed and astonishing piece of theater, its incisive social critique matched only by its rare craft. It is not to be missed. "
- Nicholas Whittaker, TheaterMirror
Citizens of the Empire
"Josephine (Alissa Cordeiro),[is] a scrappy survivor who ran a brothel until she ran afoul of the law. [She] is a dynamic, sensual presence, sometimes calculating in her flirtations but often unconsciously physical in the way she interacts with her new friends."
- Killian Melloy, EDGEBoston
Wonder of the World
"There’s a lot of WONDER that does hit the mark, chiefly because of the cast’s spot on, tongue-in-cheek delivery...Alissa Cordeiro is a treat as the dubious shrink/clown (and wiseacre waitresses)"
- Beverly Creasy, Boston Arts Review
"[Cordeiro] delivers one of the funniest lines in the play just after a climactic moment...[She] also does heavy duty multiple role management throughout as a shipboard tourist and as three different servers at the above-mentioned themed restaurants, creating (and hopping back and forth between) separate, distinct characters in a virtuoso display."
- Killian Malloy, EDGE Boston
"Alissa Cordeiro is the character-actor workhorse of the production. Throughout the show she removes one character and dons another as fluidly as if she were taking off one mask and putting on the next."
- Michael Cox, EDGE Boston
"Alissa Cordeiro is a riot in multiple roles including the clown/therapist and a series of waitresses at a series of increasingly ridiculous themed restaurants."
- Mike Hoban, Boston Events Insider
What Once We Felt
"Alissa Cordeiro is Healy’s tragic anti-hero, who knits like Mme. Defarge, watching her mother suffer...the crackerjack ensemble is the reason WHAT ONCE WE FELT succeeds."
- Beverly Creasy, Boston Arts Review
On Ego
"I haven’t seen characters like Alex, Alice and Derrick onstage for a long time. Just seeing them is a treat...Alice adds new depth to the show when we find out she has an inoperable brain tumor. Alissa Cordeiro does a fantastic job of portraying both Alice’s vibrant personality and declining state; she‘s normal enough to be a foil to Alex‘s quirks, yet strange enough to be interesting, even without the complication of illness. "
- Joelle Jameson, Bostonplays
Alex’s wife, Alice (Alissa Cordeiro) has just received news that she has a “butterfly tumor” in her brain and that she is going to die...Cordeiro believably straddles between normality and this debilitating condition while creating a very realistic character who is dealing with the tension within her marriage and her family...Like an engrossing episode of The Twilight Zone, the science is a means for exploring the relationships between these three characters in a heightened matter that they cannot hide from...this play achieves the best of science fiction by exploring humanity and man’s place in the world.
- Becca Kidwell, New England Theatre Geek
- Joelle Jameson, Bostonplays
Alex’s wife, Alice (Alissa Cordeiro) has just received news that she has a “butterfly tumor” in her brain and that she is going to die...Cordeiro believably straddles between normality and this debilitating condition while creating a very realistic character who is dealing with the tension within her marriage and her family...Like an engrossing episode of The Twilight Zone, the science is a means for exploring the relationships between these three characters in a heightened matter that they cannot hide from...this play achieves the best of science fiction by exploring humanity and man’s place in the world.
- Becca Kidwell, New England Theatre Geek
