In this workshop paper, I propose a theoretical account and procedure for performing interaction criticism called pentadic interac- tion criticism. This theoretical sketch is based on concepts from Kenneth Burke’s dramatism and rhetoric. Through these concepts, I begin to formulate an account of interac- tion criticism as a process of identification between the crit- ic, the designer, the user, and the client and the stakehold- ers. Then, I propose a five-step procedure for PIC to make it approachable to scholars, pedagogues and HCI/UX de- signers not familiar with interaction criticism.