Happy, Happy, Happy…

by Lisa Every and Jenn Ruzumna, directed by Amy Poisson

macha theatre works 2017-2018 season

Lauren's grandmother is dead. The funeral has been scheduled for today, her son Caleb's 19th birthday, and she has to finish his 10 layer gluten-free cake. Her husband is no help; all he wants to do these days is jog... for hours. And her best friend seems distracted... what could she be hiding? It's a day for everyone's secrets to be revealed as the characters struggle with morality, mortality, and the cost of their choices in this dark comedy about betrayal and what you'll risk to follow your bliss.

Cast: Lisa Every, Jenn Ruzumna, Martyn G. Krouse, Warren Levi Haney.

Production team: Amy Poisson (Director), Madison Gordon (Assistant Director), Caitlin McCown (Scenic Design), Meghan Roche (Sound Design), Lily McLeod (Lighting Design), Stacey Bush (Costume Design), Natalie Berg (Stage Manager), Drew Schoenbourn, Ana Rusness-Petersen (Production Manager), Kyna Shilling (Producing Managing Director).

World premiere.

Produced at the Erickson Theatre Off Broadway. 

Photos by Joe Iano Photography and Kyna Shilling.

Reviews:

‘Happy, Happy, Happy’ at Macha Theatre Works 10-20-2017, City Arts

‘Happy, Happy, Happy...’ is a smart, tight and clean 75 minutes of theatre that will surely leave you thinking and definitely get you talking.
— City Arts
Quick and funny but darkly so, and just a hair twisted. My favorite genre of funny.
— City Arts
The witty, thoughtful production, elegantly staged, engages messy amounts of humanity, badly kept secrets and some really nasty life choices.
— City Arts
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