HERE LIES HENRY

​I've had the amazing luck of getting cast in a brilliant play, with a brilliant director and team, at a brilliant theater company.  This has happened several times, but this latest one is a particular challenge - the one-man show.  Here Lies Henry by Daniel MacIvor.  It's a head-scratching, life-affirming, twisty, rambling monologue, filled with beautiful poetry, disturbing dancing, and a whole lot of me.  Critical response so far has been fantastic:

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended!
"Suspenders, jitters, throwback mustache and all, Sawa delivers a bravura performance as either the worst inspirational comic of all time; a soul in purgatory who keeps blurting out unsavory disclosures involving past awkwardness and possible murder; a pathological liar; or some fiercely winning jumble of all three."
- Max Maller

​Chicago Theatre Review - Recommended!
"Scott Sawa as the titular Henry is great in the part. He has to hold the audience’s attention and there’s not really any point to reset if the rhythm gets thrown off, and even at a comparatively short 75 minute run time, that’s still a long time to be the only person on stage. I saw him recently in Cowardly Scarecrow’s production of Cabaret as Cliff, and he was great there, too. Sawa brings a similar wearing disdain for everything, most of all himself, and whatever my other questions about the script, that shone through easily and was at several points quite moving."
"Sawa’s performance is worth your time."
- Kevin Curran

Chicago On Stage - Recommended!
"Sawa’s portrayal, certainly honed in conjunction with director and Interrobang Artistic Producer Elana Elyse, rapidly becomes clear during a highly tentative and circular opening in which we are never quite sure what the heck is going on.... All of this bizarre and discontinuous dialogue ends up rather playfully and unexpectedly creating a real character and also a backstory that defines him."
"what [MacIvor] wants to do is to take us all on a mind journey, not just into Henry’s life, but into our own as well. Sawa and Elyce do a fine job of fulfilling this goal, making Here Lies Henry into probably the most fascinatingly metaphysical play ever punctuated sporadically by dance breaks."
- Karen Topham

And we are Jeff Recommended!

I hope you can make it to this nutzo show!

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(also I have half-price codes for Family, Friends, and Industry!)
Running now through March 28
Thurs - Sat @8pm
Sat & Sun @3pm