KML is proud to be chosen as 'best of the year' by several Bay Area critics and publications for our long-running summer 2006 world premiere production of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Hunter Gatherers. Please read below for the news and to read each individual story, please click on the names of the critics.

Bay Area Reporter's #1 Pick of the Year: "Perhaps the best received, among both audiences and critics, of any new play to have its world premiere in the Bay Area was the wild and wooly Hunter Gatherers presented by Killing My Lobster. Playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb imagined a friendly dinner party at which long-suppressed primal urges overwhelmed all decorum — to hilarious and scary effect." - Richard Dodds

"The Number One production of 2006 in the Bay Area." - Tom Kelly, SF Bay Times  

S.F. Chronicle top 10 of 2006: "Hunter Gatherers: Ravenous hunger, rampaging libidos and lingering resentments escalated by carefully calculated degrees to create a "Killer Joe"-like hilariously provocative dark comedy of San Francisco culinary and spiritual pretensions in Killing My Lobster's long-running world premiere of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's remarkable play." - Rob Hurwitt

San Jose Mercury News Best of 2006: "Hunter Gatherers (staged by Killing My Lobster at the Thick House, San Francisco, August), Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's comedy, a look at the lifestyles of the young and Ikea-licious, has been described as a Gen-X ``Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' One of the coolest (and darkest) new plays of the year, this was tragicomedy as Thunderdome. Two couples enter, no couples leave!" - Karen D'Souza

Contra Costa Times Best of 2006: "Hunter Gatherers, Killing My Lobster -- San Francisco's current heavyweight champ sketch company ventured into a full-length play and came out winners. Not only was the Peter Sinn Nachtrieb script a delight -- sort of a young-marrieds versions of Albee's "The Goat" -- but the cast was superb." - Pat Craig

Oakland Tribune's Best Theater Moments of 2006 -- "Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Hunter Gatherers was one of the year's best comedies, and one of the primary reasons was Jon Wolanske as Richard, an alpha male whose lust for life — lust for all things, really — rattled the walls of The Thick House. If there was an award for highest testosterone level..." - Chad Jones