“A very, very excellent raconteur”
— Peter Filichia, “Broadway Radio”
“Superb … [a] poetic, graceful, intimate tale”
— Mark Rifkin, “This Week in New York”
“An extraordinary show”
— Elise Nussbaum, “La Voce di New York”
“An act of shared witnessing: intimate, humane, and gently unsentimental”
— Deirdre Donovan, “Off Off Online”
“Riveting … clever, funny, moving, even inspiring”
— Jonathan Mandell, “New York Theater”
Edward O’Connell died twelve years ago, at the age of seventy-three, and left behind a box containing 27 objects. Each object tells a story.
Praise for earlier plays
“You should be prepared to have your every expectation of theater subverted.” New York Times
“One-of-a-kind theater you don’t want to miss.” New York Magazine
“He reminds us that even when everything appears lost in theater, we never lose faith in it.” New York Observer
“One of the most unorthodox, fast-paced, tangent-jumping and funny plays I have seen.” New York Amsterdam News
“I’d like to recommend it to every single person I’ve ever met.” The New Yorker
“Bizarre and truly bold experiment in form and manipulation … its elaborate artifice is built on rock-solid truths.” New York Times
“Defies just about every dramatic convention ever employed.” Brooklyn Papers
“One of the most extraordinary theater experiences.” New York Post