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So get ready for more of the winding, self-devouring, David Foster Wallace-y logic that hounds Rebecca and has always provided a cringey, sharp, and hilarious tonal center for the show.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2018

You can imagine these words coming out of the disembodied mouth of Not I, or spoken by the self-devouring voices of the urned dead in Play.

From Slate • May 2, 2016

“Mercury Fur,” which ended its limited run at Trafalgar Studios recently, offers the most merciless vision of a self-devouring Britain since Sarah Kane’s “Blasted” rattled audiences here in 1995.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2012

This self-devouring clan, which Eugene O’Neill modeled closely on his own family, has been reassembled to revelatory effect in Anthony Page’s excellent revival of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” which runs through Aug. 18.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2012

The Thought conducts not to the Deed; but in boundless chaos, self-devouring, engenders monstrosities, fantasms, fire-breathing chimeras.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest