Tickets are now on sale for our regional premiere production of There Is A Happiness That Morning Is by Mickle Maher, performing at The Dairy Center for the Arts (2590 Walnut Street in Boulder), March 7-30, 2014!
“[R]ich, funny, and more heartbreaking than ever… If the American theater harbors a precedent for Mickle Maher’s astonishing play…I’ve never found it .” Justin Hayward, Chicago Reader
Direction by Meridith C. Grundei
With Amanda Berg Wilson, Jeremy Make, and Jim Walker
Costume Design by Meridith C. Grundei
Lighting Design by Erika Kae
Music Direction and Composition by Gary Grundei
Set Design and Construction by Brian Miller
Production by McPherson Horle
Mickle Maher’s There Is A Happiness That Morning Is is a comedy in rhymed verse told via two lectures on the poetry of William Blake: one given in the morning by Bernard, a middle-aged, barely published poet of scant scholarship, on the Songs of Innocence, and the other in the afternoon by his lover, Ellen, a reputable Ph.D., on the Songs of Experience. Having engaged the evening before in a highly inappropriate display of public affection on the main lawn of their rural New England campus, the two undergraduate lecturers must now, in class, either apologize for their behavior or effectively justify it if they want to keep their jobs.