cover photo by Megan Terry
“It's tough to imagine `a
comic, gymnastic extravaganza about family aggression', but the
Omaha Magic Theater has done it.
Avant garde playwright Megan
Terry's new play GOONA GOONA concerns child abuse as told to
Punch and Judy, the story of a nuclear family meltdown is
stylized to absurdity....
GOONA GOONA may be the best play
the Magic Theater has staged.“
Roger Catlin, Omaha
World-Herald
“Megan Terry's GOONA GOONA
turns out to be a racy, raucous and instructive piece of avant
garde action theater somewhere this side of Grand Guignol and
Artaud's theater of cruelty.
It's a `musical' that is also
educational, not only about family violence but also about a
whole clutch of middle-class American attitudes. It plays like a
cross between a circus and a surrealist sermon....
The play is a fascinating, always interesting exploration of the
uses of the stage.“
Joan Bunke, The Des Moines
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