Lobster Alice by Kira Obolensky

"Fresh, bright, and irresistible!"

"Playwright Kira Obolensky invents a theatrical dream world in which the man who famously envisioned melting clocks helps (in his signature boundary-blurring way) a reluctant couple melt into each other...the piece is inspired."

"Lobster Alice is a gleeful meditation on the marriage of artistic creation and sexual desire. A virtual rabbit hole of visual surprises, romantic suspense and silly-sophisticated wordplay, it's a frisky, fanciful surrealist romp that opens the doors of the imagination and tickles the intellect in rare and magical ways... Lobster Alice ranks among the most pleasurable stage experiences of the year."

"At once confusing, disturbing, and sometimes hilarious, Obolensky's play is always fascinating and provocative."

"Plunges its characters into a vortex of mindscrambling surrealism..."

"Obolensky shows a flair not only for the quirky twist and surreal image, but for neatly pointed dialogue... Like any strange dream, Lobster Alice tantalizes the imagination and lingers in the memory."

"Kira Obolensky's Kesselring Prize-winning comedy is about art and lobsters -- or, more precisely, about the juxtaposition of apparently dissonant ideas and the delightful confluence that occasionally results... Lobsters may be as odd a metaphor for creative inspiration as has ever been concocted, but like everything else in Obolensky's play, the plucky crustaceans prove apropos."