“Custom Made Theatre Company is billing its latest, Steve Yockey’s “The Thrush and the Woodpecker,” as a revenge play. That’s accurate, but it’s also just one of the genres this strange — at times wondrously so — play takes on.

But soon, the show verges into other tones. It becomes, variously, philosophical — asking when one should follow one’s conscience in the face of major consequences — fantastical, poetic and even horrific. (The play’s title winks at a certain Hitchcock horror flick.)

…but it’s a testament to Tracy Ward’s direction that even from the beginning, the show doesn’t feel entirely naturalistic; an eerieness suffuses Brenda and Noah’s every parry.”

SF Chronicle