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The Catastrophic Theatre: There Is a Happiness That Morning Is

Kerri Foley
The LoopScoop
Mon, 10/10/2011
Original Article

Mickle Maher’s play is as masterful as they come, a simple story told in a genius style. While the majority of dialogue is delivered in rhymed verse, the script manages to avoid the old-fashioned bouncing rhymes that often invade a metered method. The lines of There Is a Happiness That Morning Is do not bounce. They ooze sophistication, wind complicated puns and set up stunning contrast for an occasional burst of modern profanity. Maher isn’t a rhyming poet, but a matchmaker who allows words to meet, woo, and sing harmony.

CATASTROPHIC’S “THERE IS A HAPPINESS” IS A TRUE ORIGINAL

Everett Evans
Houston Chronicle
Tue, 10/04/2011
Original Article

I can scarcely contain my enthusiasm for Catastrophic Theatre’s ideally realized presentation of Mickle Maher’s delightfully original There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, so I’m not even going to try.

Director Jason Nodler introduced us to this Chicago playwright’s distinctive and virtually unclassifiable work with Catastrophic’s deft productions of The Strangerer and Spirits to Enforce in 2008.

Would Maher’s latest live up to the ingenuity of those witty, wacky, multilayered works?

Happiness, in the first mounting since its premiere at Chicago’s Theatre Oobleck earlier this year, surpasses them. If you prize imagination, intelligence and genuine passion, you’ll be on cloud nine through all 90 minutes of this utterly unpredictable experience.

Catastrophic’s THERE IS A HAPPINESS THAT MORNING IS is Mesmerizing, Momentous Masterpiece

Buzz Bellmont
Chron Commons
Mon, 09/26/2011
Original Article

If The Catastrophic Theatre had not produced this brilliant play, what other theatre would have? ... The Catastrophic Theatre has a huge hit on its hands with Mayer's There Is a Happiness That Morning Is so I highly recommend that you get your tickets before the run sells out.

There Is a Happiness That Morning Is at Catastrophic Theatre: Get Ready to Get Culturally Slapped

David Theis
Houston Press
Mon, 09/26/2011
Original Article

This bare bones outline doesn't begin to hint at the play's--and the production's--riches. Maher has written most of it in metered, rhyming verse, some of which sounds truly Shakespearean. But, lest ye tremble, he's also made it great fun. ... I laughed, gasped, and scratched my head. A great night of theater.
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