Wakey, Wakey by Will Eno at Actors Collaborative Toledo

Actors Collaborative Toledo (ACT) is proud to present the area premiere of Will Eno’s touching and quirky two-hander, “Wakey, Wakey.” Tickets can be purchased at www.act419.org.

The play, performed as a staged reading, features ACT co-founder Jeffrey J. Albright as Guy and is directed by another one of ACT’s co-founders, Barbara Barkan. Rounding out the cast is Thea Catherine Grabiec as Lisa. The play will feature an original soundscape created by local musician Mark Owen and projected images that were featured in the original Off-Broadway production of the play designed by Peter Nigrini.

In the first line of the show, Guy, the protagonist, seems to rouse from a nap and says “Is it now? I thought I had more time.” And then we’re off to an examination of Guy’s life, in a moving showcase of life’s messy entanglements and its moments of surprising beauty. Wakey Wakey is a funny, thoughtful, at times tearful examination of what it means to be human.

The New York Times called Will Eno’s Wakey, Wakey “a glowingly dark, profoundly moving new play.” It’s a funny, sad, tragic, comic examination of the many ways a life can run its course.