Acting Class

"Nick Drnaso uses a deadpan, quick-cut drawing style to explore loneliness, paranoia, and the subjectivity of truth. It's all very mysterious, kind of creepy, and extremely suspenseful." -Elena Goukassian, Vulture

"Drnaso again distills quite brilliantly aspects of 21st-century anomie and alienation." -Rachel Cooke, The Guardian

"A wholly unsettling masterclass in disquiet." -Nick Duerden, The Independent

"This fascinating tale about an amateur acting group discovering the tenuous line between artifice and reality kept me reading well into the night. It is at once a commentary on the power of art to reshape us, and on the dangers of conforming. Acting Class is uncanny, wholly original, and deeply satisfying." -Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

"Eerily domestic." -Shelby Shaw, ArtForum

"Masterfully told, artfully layered, and beautifully rendered, Acting Class shows again that Nick Drnaso is attuned to a particular American ennui and eeriness like no other artist currently at work. He is a unique talent." -Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"Inarguably surprising and disturbing... [Drnaso's] careful building of suspense and overpoweringly eerie mood makes the long build worthwhile well before the final and powerfully cinematic twist." -Chris Barsanti, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"An incisive exploration of alienation that is increasingly unsettling as it builds to a shocking conclusion." -Tom Batten, Library Journal, Starred Review

"A provocative portrait of the search for connection and meaning in modern life." --Publishers Weekly