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On Title and Deed

“A haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile…The marvel of Mr. Eno’s voice is how naturally it combines a carefully sculptured lyricism with sly, poker-faced humor. Everyday phrases and familiar platitudes—‘Don’t ever change,’ ‘Who knows’—are turned inside out or twisted into blunt, unexpected punch lines punctuating long rhapsodic passages that leave you happily word-drunk.”

—Charles Isherwood, New York Times

“The piece proves to be an always fascinating and surprisingly moving seventy minutes of theatre…What emerges from his humorous, sometimes stream-of-conscious patter is a heartfelt exploration of the transience of everything in this life, from words themselves, to relationships, to our very existence.”

—Andy Propst, TheaterMania

“Title and Deed is daring within its masquerade of the mundane, spectacular within its minimalism and hilarious within its display of po-faced bewilderment. It is a clown play that capers at the edge of the abyss…Eno’s voice is unique; his play is stage poetry of a high order. You can’t see the ideas coming in Title and Deed. When they arrive—tiptoeing in with a quiet yet startling energy—you don’t quite know how they got there. In this tale’s brilliant telling, it is not the narrator who proves unreliable but life itself. The unspoken message of Eno’s smart, bleak musings seems to be: enjoy the nothingness while you can.”

—John Lahr, New Yorker

“Pensive, lyrical, deeply funny and profoundly sad.”

—Marilyn Stasio, Variety