Articles Tagged With: The Mercury Theatre

Squidsbury at Truepenny Projects

Reviews July 20, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Is human life too demanding? Too structured? Try squid life! It’s great. All tentacles and rage-temper-tantrums as you bust out of your human-skin-suit to show your true pink, squishy, sucker-covered colors. Sound appealing? Or at least piquing to your interests? Then Squidsbury at Truepenny Projects is for you! Making its world premiere as a full-length, staged production, this quirky play, penned by playwright Chad Short, is as endearing as it is darkly mysterious,

In The Arms Of A Squid: Interviewing The Playwright & Director of Squidsbury at Truepenny Projects

Interviews July 13, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

No, this isn’t the reprise of that one extremely weird number from The Addams Family musical when it first went up on Broadway. But it is, however, a really cool interview about a play that involves at least oen squid. Expect touching tentacles, diabolical spouses, ominous ticket takers, and more. If ever there was a grabbing tagline to get you excited about a world-premiere play, that would be it. And that’s exactly what you’ll get— especially the ‘and more’— with Truepenny Projects’ production of Chad Short’s Squidsbury.

A Good Man is Hard to Find at Feral Woman

Reviews August 11, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther

“Ain’t a body yet that gave the undertaker a tip.” Flannery O’Connor has a deliciously twisted way with words. Why head to the box office and pay exorbitant amounts of money for a deceptively dark and twisted thrilling experience when you can slip on down to Station North in Charm City, slide into The Mercury Theatre and witness the inaugural production of a new company— Feral Woman— doing exactly the same thing without the highway robbery box office prices and the action just millimeters from your face?