Fata Morgana

World Premiere: Boise Contemporary Theater
with Matthew Cameron Clark, Kathy McCafferty, Danielle Sacks, Cherene Snow & Dwayne Blackaller. Sets by 

Matthew Cameron Clark, Kathy McCafferty & Cherene Snow at Boise Contemporary Theater.

Kathy McCafferty as Tori

"Mahoney plays with reality in the same way with a string of deftly crafted domestic scenes — little pearls of relatively normal family dysfunction — that increase in intensity until they drop you into an ending of Medea-like proportions.

This is a stellar first production of an exceptional play that deserves multiple future productions. It will be interesting to follow Mahoney’s and the play’s journey from here. "                                                                          - Dana Oland, The Idaho Statesman

"Jeni Mahoney's play, Fata Morgana, is a fantastic example of the challenging, intelligent, and emotionally powerful writing that BCT audiences have embraced here over the years. But most importantly, it has an innovative style. It feels like a new American magic realism... I believe it's a play that will have a long life on many stages across the country." 
                                 - Matthew Cameron Clark, Artistic Director,  Boise Contemporary Theater

"It’s good writing to open a play with intimately drawn characters. In close quarters, drama is more personal and immediate—it creates conditions ripe for introducing information that casts preceding actions in a new and unexpected light, creating a sense of vertigo. Fata Morgana, the latest production by Boise Contemporary Theater, uses this vertigo to reveal a compelling vision of psychological terror... Fata Morgana packs a wallop. It’s clever overall, funny in parts and inventive in ways that will draw audiences in. Be warned, though: It isn’t for the faint of heart." 
                                                                                                                      - Harrison Barry (Boise Weekly) 

Kathy McCafferty & Cherene Snow at Boise Contemporary Theater

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 - David Marlowe of Colorado Out Front

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​A staggeringly ambitious new play...  
- Philly City Paper

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"...a bitterly funny portrait of ambivalent motherhood"   - The Washington Post

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The hospital play that will leave you in stitches!
- Jennifer Dotson, Chicago Womens Theater Alliance
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Media Links

Scatter named one of the top 13 plays in the 2015 Boston Theater Marathon

​Things Other Than Writing, an interview with Kara Lee Corthron

Featured photo on the American Theatre Website

Idaho Statesman
Review of Fata Morgana

Boise Weekly
Review of Fata Morgana

Broadwayworld.com
NEA Award Announcement

The Horton Lens
Howlround: A Journal of the Theater Commons

The Feminine Mystique, 50 Years Later
Interview with Michael Doyle of Project Y

People Who Make it Happen
An interview with NY Madness

The Writing Life x3
An interview with fellow playwright Patrick Gabridge

The Dramatists Magazine
An interview with Gary Garrison

About Development
An interview with Jacob Coakley

The Devils in the Details
by Molly Shaver in Idaho Arts Quarterly

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One of the 100 Top Best Things to do this Christmas Season!                      
​- TimeOutNY 

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Throw of the Moon

These Washington Square Dreams remind us, over and over again, that the impossible can and often does happen, especially when we’re lost in an enchantment woven by Oberon or Titania or William Shakespeare; or -- as Jeni Mahoney and Ben Sahl’s Throw of the Moon demonstrates – even the guy from New Jersey who holds the follow spot.
    - Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com

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