Description: A radical, metafictional musical wherein a queer black writer confronts the impossibility of fully understanding the self.
Review Quotes:
"A full-on laparoscopy of the heart, soul, and loins... A Strange Loop is a gutsy, jubilantly anguished musical with infectious melodies by the very deft Michael R. Jackson."―Ben Brantley, New York Times
"Exhilarating and wickedly funny. A triumph!"―Sara Holdren, New York Magazine
"A metafictional musical that tracks the creative process of an artist transforming issues of identity, race, and sexuality that once pushed him to the margins of the cultural mainstream into a meditation on universal human fears and insecurities." ―Pulitzer Prize Committee
"To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher: the hand that lifts from the page, becoming almost real, then draws another hand, which returns the favor. Which came first?"―Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker
"Brilliant... Harrowing...one-of-a-kind... Hyper-observant and hyper-verbal, Jackson lets his remorselessly satirical eye wander, to hilarious and devastating effect...What makes A Strange Loop so powerful, is not an attempt to find 'our common humanity' but an insistence on speaking its own idiosyncratic truth."―Adam Green, Vogue
"An exhilarating cocktail of hilarious lyrical complexity... Michael R. Jackson is a musical talent with deep wells of invention." ―Helen Shaw, Time Out New York