The Feast of the Flying Cow... and Other Stories of War
Throw of the Moon & American Eyes
Running in Circles Screaming
“Ms. Mahoney is a playwright with the impeccable genius of challenging the audience to laugh and to think simultaneously. She chooses her subjects fearlessly, and commits to them by conjuring up surprising new worlds and passionate, thought provoking characters. She has the rare ability to balance the absurd and the earnest, the personal and the political and the light and the dark, which makes her an engaging and truly original storyteller.” Susan Booth, Artistic Director Alley Theater
“Her strengths include an ear for dialogue, swashbuckling choices in storytelling and characterization, and a dark, edgy, political sense of humor.” John Clinton Eisner,Artistic Director, Lark Theater Company
“Intellectually arresting and darkly comic… a thoroughly engrossing and provocative evening of theatre. Not to be missed.” David Marlowe of Colorado Out Front
“Aunt Rosa believes the war will end "when cows fly," and this bizarre image carries The Feast of the Flying Cow down a path that contrasts the absurdity and brutality of war with situational absurdity in the microcosm of a small apartment and the lives of five people. This thoughtful production delivers humor, magical realism, and brutality..." Craig Williamson-North Denver Tribune
“Peppered with absurd but all too realistic humor, Flying Cows provides opportunity for a good many honest laughs, salted with striking uneasy moments of what these people live through, shaking their vulnerabilities to the core, allowing them to emerge as very different then when the play first begins. Transformation becomes honest and real as pretense is stripped…” Holly Bartges, Denver Backstage
See clips on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NShyMqzWjEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bcxiNNrR-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spmv91Lln8U
"A staggeringly ambitious new play... cleverly provocative... as the saying goes, like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic -- a moment of genuinely tragic comedy. " Philly City Paper
"The InterAct Theatre Company's world premiere of Jeni Mahoney's The Feast of the Flying Cow and Other Stories of War couldn't be more topical. Although the play focuses on a married couple in a distant war-torn nation, the young couple's crumbling apartment could just as easily be in New Orleans." Philadelphia Weekly
Mahoney's dark humor is not without purpose. Balancing cruelty and slapstick, Feast seeks to uncover the truth behind America 's so-called altruistic approach to foreign aid. Theatermania
"There is no denying the relevance of a play about the failure of humanitarian relief efforts and about the misguided diplomats so blinded by privilege as to be utterly clueless about those they would help." Variety
