Spirits to Enforce

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Ticket Price

We Suggest $35
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Location

MATCH
3400 Main St
Houston, TX 77002

Performances

Sep 20, 2024 -
Oct 12, 2024

Original 2008 Production

The Play

A group of telefundraisers attempt to raise money for an upcoming production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, to be performed by local superhero team “The Fathom Town Enforcers.”

Things aren’t looking good at the phone bank. They haven’t raised a dime, rehearsals are a disaster, and they haven’t sold a single ticket. How far will they go to pull off this seemingly doomed-for-sure production? Why do they even want to?

And what do Shakespeare, superheroes, and fundraising have to do with each other? Well, you’ve obviously never seen a Mickle Maher play. Better get on that.

 
Spirits to Enforce creates a cacophonous symphony of language. A riotously funny, tender tale of memory, loss, and finding the way back home.
 

The Playwright

MICKLE MAHER
Mickle Maher’s plays have been produced Off-Broadway and throughout the world. Catastrophic has produced a whopping 12 productions of his plays, some of them more than once: last season’s It Is Magic, Song About Himself, The Hunchback Variations, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, The Strangerer, Jim Lehrer and The Theater and Its Double and Jim Lehrer’s Double, and the world premieres of The Pine and Small Ball, commissioned and co-produced by Catastrophic and former Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey. Maher is a co-founder of Chicago’s Theater Oobleck and has taught playwriting and related subjects at The University of Chicago, Columbia College, and Northwestern University. His plays are published by Hope and Nonthings.
  
“Maher [is] one of the most original voices in American theater today.” – Houston Chronicle

In the Media

Review: SPIRITS TO ENFORCE from Catastrophic Theatre
September 22, 2024 | Broadway World | Brett Cullum
“The entire cast is superhuman… They are all mighty!”
REVIEW: The Tempest Gets Telemarketing Treatment in Spirits to Enforce
September 21, 2024 | Houston Press | Jessica Goldman
“It’s all ridiculous, meta, absurd, punny, referential, poetic and wicked smart.”

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