Review: House of Several Stories by Imagine That Productions

by Michael Meigs
Published on August 07, 2009

Boulanger's achievement both as playwright and director is that he starts with loud chaos, exaggeration and absurdity, and he gradually endows his characters and his story with humanity and depth.

Think Bart Simson meets Betty Crocker on LSD, with a confident cast and decisive playwright/director who steer a comedy of infantile, broken characters through ambiguous plots and overlapping time to crisis and a touching resolution. House of Several Stories, John Boulanger's MFA project at Texas State, had a reading at the university and played for just a flicker of time in early October, 2008 at the Blue Theatre in Austin. In April it won the Kennedy …

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