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On Oh, the Humanity and other good intentions

“If you’ve ever had an urge to drop to your knees begging ‘can somebody help me please?’ or wanted to admit ‘I don’t know, I just don’t know,’ then these five playlets by Will Eno are for you…Eno is a supreme monologist, using a distinctive, edgy blend of non sequiturs and provisional statements to explore the fragility of our existence, the way we determinedly cling on even when ‘the rug is disintegrating thread by thread, gone before it can be pulled from underneath us.’ There are a lot of words, but they are always exquisitely chosen… Oh, the Humanity reveals that we are beautiful walking tragedies blinking with absurd optimism into the camera lens of history.”

—Lyn Gardner, Guardian

“Funny and tragic and truthful…for the uninitiated, Oh, the Humanity provides a perfect introduction to Eno’s work… Made up of five short plays, this is stripped back drama that is all about rich dialogue and big ideas.”

—What’sOnStage

“Mr. Eno’s unmistakable voice—aggressively stylized, unendingly compassionate, flecked with weird, bleak humor—rings out with the same arresting originality in this hour-long evening of playfully profound theater…Mr. Eno dares to believe that the theatre is the natural forum for a collective reckoning with the brutal truths and the consoling beauties of experience—all those big-ticket items that you blush to discuss publicly. His despairing figures lay bare their lonely, wounded hearts without blinking, holding mirrors up to our own. What better place for such an encounter? At the theatre, after all, we can feel most powerfully a sense of communion in life’s solitude. It is a place to go to feel alone together.”

—Charles Isherwood, New York Times