“Designer David Coggins’ walls of individually painted Plexiglas panels are an apt contemporary analogy to the overwhelming (and truth-obscuring) interiors of a Baroque palace.”

“When a curtain falls away to reveal David Coggins’ huge set of painted Plexiglas panels, the eyes blink at its harsh beauty and starkness.”

“The Minneapolis-based Theatre de la Jeune Lune’s exquisitely stark staging of ‘The Deception’ at La Jolla Playhouse....On a stage of plexiglass panels vibrantly painted in blues, yellows and greens, ‘The Deception’ lets loose its manifold trickery.”