BURLEY

ANNIKA

commanding and grounded with an
underlying fragility at her core

praise for midsummer <3

“The commanding Burley excels in her role as Helena, where she’s painfully vulnerable while begging Demetrius for his love in one scene, and later when both Demetrius and Lysander seem to love her at the same time, she turns ferocious, wondering if their sudden change of hearts is a cruel prank.”

- Jacquinn Sinclair, WBUR

“Special mention must be made of Annika Burley as Helena, who gives her role a special forcefulness, clarity and eloquence. Helena is, in many ways, the most complex and interesting character in the play, and Burley does a terrific job of carrying it off. Her performance evokes passion, pain, emotional confusion, and a noble grace in dealing with it all, and she carries it off with subtlety and craft.”

- Charles Munitz, Boston Arts Diary

“The crown jewel of this production, however, is Shakespeare’s quartet of mismatched lovers … whose jealousies, humiliations, and romantic entanglements are played with such profoundly satisfying chemistry that their scenes become something close to a master class in comedy. Rendered with exquisite vim and vigor by Meghan Carey, Annika Burley, Jaime José Hernández, and Jack Greenberg…”

- Chris Ehlers, Evening Transcript