The Wooden Breeks
by Glen Berger

“Just to get your bearings, you might want to think of THE WOODEN BREEKS—Glen Berger’s altogether whimsical and verbally intoxicated play—as a variation on BRIGADOON.

But it’s a BRIGADOON as might be reimagined by such cross-century literary aces as Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Dylan Thomas and Dave Eggers.

Sound a bit mind-boggling?

Well, it is.…this impossibly brainy, altogether quirky, simultaneously heartfelt and satirical examination of mortality turns out to be perfectly comprehensible and more than a little enchanting.”Chicago Sun-Times “The success of Berger’s play is no riddle: his knack for dialogue and storytelling is irresistible, and the result is full of Dickensian delight in human eccentricity.”

The New Yorker “I enjoyed this play immensely—so much, in fact, that it is somewhat embarrassing.

It is, after all, just a ghost story—and a love story (seven, in fact) and a pre-urban legend of mythical proportions, and a fairy tale and a shaggy dog story.

THE WOODEN BREEKS is incredibly and indelibly engaging…a very good play, very well done.

Go and enjoy.”

Juneau Empire“Playwright Berger displays rare virtuosity in his richly comic portraits… This quirky gem never fails to engage.”

Los Angeles Times