The Realistic Joneses – Will Eno

Directed by Stacey Connelly
Meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors John and Pony, two suburban couples who have more in common than their identical last names. Boasting the playwright’s quintessential existential quirkiness, this comedy finds poetry in the banal while humorously exploring our ever-floundering efforts at communication. Listed as one of New York Times’s Best Plays of 2012, The Realistic Joneses received its Broadway premiere in 2014.

“Eno’s dialogue is a marvel of compression and tonal control, trivial chitchat flipping into cosmic profundity with striking ease […] there’s much to savor: the dry but meaningful banter, the joy of humans sharing time and space, battling the darkness with a joke or silence. Life in Enoland isn’t what you’d call realistic — it’s more real than that.” – Time Out New York

“[…] each line is sharply refined with dry wit and packed with underlying meaning. The characters are written with impressive realism […]” – The Oregonian

“Will Eno has written a play of such extraordinary wit and insight, so carefully constructed, it resonates for days. Lines of dialogue peal through your thoughts like distant bells.” – Edge Media