SOURCE: "Home Fronts," in The Village Voice, 25 February-3 March 1981, pp. 75, 77.

Still Life premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 1980 and debuted Off-Broadway early the following year at the American Place Theatre. In the following highly favorable review of the latter production, Feingold praises the writing, acting, and staging of the piece.

"As incredibly civilized as we are in this room," says the nice young man, "these things go on." The things he is talking about are murder, mutilation, child-killing, schizophrenic breakdowns, battlefield hysteria, and seeing his buddies with their heads blown off. In other words, he is talking about Vietnam. The young man goes on talking. He is such a nice young man—smiling, straight-forward, presentable, aware. We ought to like him, we think. Sure, he did time in jail on a drug rap after serving in Vietnam, but veterans don't have it easy, and drugs are...