Toronto playwright and author Sheila Heti and her mostly amateur Toronto cast have gotten the New York Times treatment. The play All Our Happy Days Are Stupid, which fans of the author might recognize as the writers' block-inducing nightmare of Heti's semi-autobiographical novel How Should a Person Be? It was originally mounted in Toronto's Videofag in the fall of 2013, then revived for the Harbourfront stage earlier this month, before being brought down for a two-week run in New York.
The Times writes:
Anyone planning a thesis on Ms. Heti (though it seems early days for such a project) will presumably want to see this production, since it would seem to represent another Hetian (though it seems early days for such a term) intersection of art and life.
And, yes, many of the classic Hetian themes are in place in this story of dysfunctional innocents abroad: female friendship as an elusive holy grail, adulthood as an illusion, the hunger for authenticity and the chimerical nature of happiness.
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