Smaller Indiana.com reviews Jealous Sky Aimee Morgan on August 24, 2008 at 9:17am

Jealous Sky at Theatre on the Square - Stage 2 on Friday night. It was a solid performance with entertaining historical trivia. The banter, er, civilized chick fight, between Amelia Earhart and Harriet Quimby (the woman who flew the English Channel, but lost out on due attention because the Titanic sunk at the same time) captured my attention in its own Fringy way. The play was a refreshing and guilty pleasure as it gave a voice to Harriet's accomplishments and revealed some intimate details of Amelia's life and love. An unexpected bonus: the booming voice of Amelia's co-pilot. Wow.

Witty, intelligent, brilliant, sound-breaking are the superlatives flying around Mass. Ave. about Jealous Sky and Kimberly Lester's portrayal of Amelia Earhart and Cindy Phillips' interpretation of the 'Dresden China Aviatrix,' Harriet Quimby. Men are happy, sad or mad, but women are enigmatic complications of charm, charisma, ambition and jealousy, and Ann Arborite Paul L. Bancel's script, placing Earhart in the cockpit with Quimby leads to stratospheric confrontation. Under the excellent direction of Tony McDonald, Phillips captures the tensions and politics of becoming America's first woman pilot and as Quimby she puts the flaps down challenging the fame, mystery and legacy of Lester's iconic Earhart. Keeping the aviatrixes on course throughout the flight with precise calculation is Adam O. Crowe, as Earhart's navigator, Fred Noonan.