THE STORY: A chance encounter at a conference hotel plays upon Kitty’s mind as she struggles to balance personal freedom with family life, fidelity and a testing job. Her husband seems more interested in misplaced apostrophes than his marriage, her parents are looking down the barrel of oblivion and, although she might toy with joining a gym, Kitty’s running out of time for big changes. “I’m wondering at what point it became acceptable for you to stand in this house on which I pay the mortgage, drinking the drink I bought out of the glasses I washed in front of the cake I baked and talk that fucking talk. All—and I think this is a lovely touch for which I must take full credit—while I’m wearing an apron.” Lucinda Coxon’s HAPPY NOW? dares to ask just that, in this painfully truthful, darkly comic take on contemporary life and how to survive it.
“Trenchant comedy about the emotional hurdles of midlife. Ms. Coxon’s tart, entertaining and ultimately haunting comedy will strike deep chords with harried New Yorkers given to wondering, as the heroine wistfully does at one point: 'Is this my life? My one and only life?'” —The New York Times.
“A minor masterpiece, and I am not so sure about the 'minor.'” —Bloomberg.
“A richly rewarding gem…the best new play to have arrived on the British stage for at least a year.” —The Telegraph (UK).
“Wonderfully funny and painfully accurate…hits nail after nail on the head.” —Independent (UK).
“Everything about the play rings with a horrible truth, and the writing is consistently funny and flecked with pain.” —WhatsOnStage.
“A blistering stiff tonic of a play.” —The Guardian (UK).
