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There is a Happiness That Morning Is: Post your review
Posted by DCA Theater on April 15, 2011 in January-June 2011 Season, There is a Happiness That Morning Is
Playwright Mickle Maher debuts this comedy in rhymed verse told via two lectures on the poetry of William Blake: one given in the morning by Bernard, a middle-aged, barely published poet of scant scholarship, on the Songs of Innocence, and the other in the afternoon by his lover, Ellen, a reputable Ph.D., on the Songs of Experience. Having engaged the evening before in a highly inappropriate display of public affection on the main lawn of their rural New England campus, the two undergraduate lecturers must now, in class, either apologize for their behavior or effectively justify it if they want to keep their jobs.
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Kris Vire of TimeOut Chicago gives 4 stars, saying “it’s a tantalizing examination of love’s dark secrets.”: Click here to read the full review.
Monica Westin of NewCity says “This is Oobleck at their best: an unorthodox premise that oscillates between rapid-fire madcap humor and unexpected enlightenment.”: Click here to read the full review.
Katy Walsh of Chicago Theater Blog calls Happiness… “a witty, cerebral look at love in all the wrong places…a clever, intellectual love lesson.”: Click here to read the full review.
Alan Bresloff of AroundTheTownChicago.com gives 4 stars, saying “this simple 90 minute production is well staged and the three actors bring something real and special to their roles.” The production will “bring laughter to your heart and soul and things to think about and a wonderful end to a delightful story indeed!”: Click here to read the full review.
Nina Metz of Chicago Tribune calls Happiness “an enjoyably lunatic endeavor”.. “blending the intellectual with the happily profane”: Click here to read the full review.
Justin Hayford of Chicago Reader says “Three of Chicago’s most intelligent, flexible fringe actors make up the cast… they make Maher’s intricate, demanding text ring true at nearly every turn.”: Click here to read the full review.
Jonathan Abarbanel of Windy City Times says Oobleck and Maher “have created a singular theater piece that’s funny, witty, literate and profound”… “never loses its comic edge or showmanship, culminating in an unexpected and gasp-inducing stage fight that’s one of the best I’ve seen”: Click here to read the full review.
Kelly Kleiman of WBEZ selects Happiness as a Critics Pick, saying “By the time they were done, I was (in equal parts) rooting for them and resolving to read Blake.”: Click here to read the full review.
J.H. Palmer of Gapers Block says Happiness is “captivating in its intimacy, and powerful in its language” Click here to read the full review.
Venus Zarris of Chicago Stage Review gives 4 stars; “a production of writing and acting at its finest and one of the year’s most extraordinary offerings that you cannot afford to miss.”: Click here to read the full review.