Mr. Spacky

Laura Molzahn, Chicago Reader

Highly Recommended - "Emily Schwartz’s new melodrama for the Strange Tree Group--a "murder-muzical" in which the audience decides the ending--is both exquisitely silly and genuinely witty.

Despite Mr. Spacky’s star billing, the story belongs to three female characters: a gullible bride-to-be and her sinister future sister-in-law and crazy niece. In a jocular twist, Mr. Spacky is the hysteric.

Lovingly crafted set pieces create the play’s fanciful 100-year-old world, eroded by an unnamed war, while a seven-piece band provides vaguely archaic music"