Oh, the Humanity
and other exclamations

By Will Eno

REGIONAL PREMIERE

Dazzling wordsmith Will Eno gets under the skins and inside the souls of ordinary people—a high school coach, an airline spokeswoman, a photographer, a man and woman at a video dating service, a couple in their car—in this inventive, bleakly funny collection of five short works that dares to look into the void—and laugh. With a fierce sense of hope and en equal measure of grim honesty, Eno demonstrates the astonishing talent that led the New York Times to call him “a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation.”

Directed by Alex Harvey (Mr. Marmalade, I Am My Own Wife)
Starring Philip Lehl (Mr. Marmalade, Lady, I Am My Own Wife), Mikele Johnson (Mr. Marmalade) and Erik Hellman (Mr. Marmalade)

January 26 - February 20, 2011

Dinner and a Show!
This package includes your ticket to Oh, the Humanity AND a delicious four-course dinner at our neighbor Bamboo House (in the shopping center right in front of Stages!). Check out the menu here, and call 713.527.0123 to order. 
$60 per person
Not available on Sundays; drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

 
"Mr. Eno’s unmistakable voice — aggressively stylized, unendingly compassionate, flecked with weird, bleak humor — rings out with the same arresting originality in this hourlong evening of playfully profound theater…. Mr. Eno dares to still believe that the theater is the natural forum for a collective reckoning with the brutal truths and the consoling beauties of experience — all those big-ticket items that you would blush to discuss publicly.”
                - New York Times

“[Eno’s] psychic portraits are frequently beautiful and reliably intelligent... they shine with grace. For anyone within hearing distance, his five short ‘exclamations’ reverberate far and wide.
                - Village Voice

“It's always rewarding to see the work of a writer to whom every word and punctuation mark matters….”
                - Curtain Up