“Andrea Bechert’s magnificent set design is a study in scale and nuance crowned by a sprawling Southern manse sitting center stage. It’s a down-home palace crammed with nooks and crannies. The meandering delights of a back porch, a sturdy tree and a wonderfully vintage mint-green kitchen ground this TheatreWorks Silicon Valley production in a delicious sense of lived-in complexity. Everywhere you look on this set, there are new layers to explore.”
"There is much to like about the TheatreWorks Silicon Valley production of Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart," from the Pulitzer Prize-winning script to Andrea Bechert's GORGEOUS scenic design."
"The humor is apparent before the show even starts, thanks to Andrea Bechert’s trinket-besotted set. The Magraths’ home is one in which ornamental plates hang on the wall next to a fly swatter, as if a filthy, banal instrument of death were also a priceless family heirloom."
"Andrea Bechert has created a 1974 Southern home that still has furniture and fixtures from the 1950s and '60s—so full of details and oddities that it is a shame we as audience cannot go up afterwards to prowl around the wide-open rooms and back porch. "
"Andrea Bechert is the Scenic Designer, and the Mississippi home where the play is set was just INCREDIBLE in detail, and an unfathomable amount of work was put into it."
