Here Lies Henry is coming back to Chicago! Interrobang Theatre Project is bringing down the curtain on Season 2 with a limited return engagement at the Intuit Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art August 2 - 12. Here’s what Kerry Reid for the Chicago Reader had to say about Interrobang’s premiere production:
Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor doesn't get produced much in Chicago. On the evidence of this 1996 solo gem, that's a shame. MacIvor's tale of a self-proclaimed liar delivering snippets from his alleged autobiography zigs and zags through witty asides and dollops of meta-theatrical trickery. But MacIvor knows how to pull back from the fiery pit of self-consciousness and deliver unadorned truths (or seeming truths) unencumbered by pathos. In this inaugural production from Interrobang Theatre Project, Michael Moran's performance is perfectly pitched between a naked desire for our approval and joy at nudging us off-balance just when we think we know where he's taking us.
What is this project?
Here Lies Henry
by award-winning Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor
Directed by Jeffry Stanton
Featuring Michael Moran as “Henry”
Henry is nervous, a self-proclaimed liar, and compelled by some unknown force to tell us his life story along with something we don't already know. MacIvor's spellbinding head-scratcher of a one-man play twists and turns, flips and sidesteps through Henry’s struggle to grasp the meaning of life, love, beauty, death, truth and lies.
MacIvor’s brand of meta-theatrical theatre, “has the power to transform the lives of audiences, who come into dark rooms with their minds and their hearts open, who are filled with questions, and who find a moment of peace in the presence of something innately familiar. The play hopefully can touch people, and open people to thinking about their own humanity and their purpose in life."
Why we would love your support?
The projected cost of this production is $2500. We are hoping to raise a minimum of $500 to offset the cost of the playwright’s royalty fees, venue rental, production costs like lights, props and costume, and to pay our actor a modest stipend. Claim your share in this production. Join our campaign to change our world one play at a time.
Thank you for supporting our brand of Chicago theatre!
Tickets available here.
What is Interrobang Theatre Project?
Interrobang Theatre Project is dedicated to excellence in producing visceral, smart, substantial, and timely classic plays, rarely produced texts, and new American plays. Interrobang strives to build and encourage a new generation of theatre-goers, to engage our community through challenging plays in an ongoing dialogue of ideas, to create an exciting lobby life that will allow us all the space and time to talk about the work we typically share alone in the dark, to maintain an environment in which artists can do their very best work, and to uphold live theatre and the act of collective imagining as a powerful and vital means to change our world one play at a time. Interrobang is not recommended for audiences who prefer theatre to be benign or familiar.
Oh, and what’s an interrobang anyway?
An interrobang is the combination of a question mark and an exclamation point, joining the Latin for “question” (interro) with a proofreading term for “exclamation” (bang). Punctuation expresses an attitude, an idea, an attempt to make things clearer. Through the dynamic plays we produce, Interrobang Theatre Project poses complex and intoxicating questions. Navigating through the dark together with our audience we attempt to arrive at new understandings and fresh perspectives of who we are and the world in which we live.
