Strauss at Midnight June 20, 2009

Theater Oobleck visits Oscar Madison's apartment in order to explore such "Odd Couples" as liberty and tyranny, love and hate, man and superman. When a time-traveling tourist on a prehistoric safari accidentally kills a butterfly, Oscar and Felix's poker table becomes the battleground for human civilization. Incorporating Saul Bellow, Niccolo Machiavelli, and University of Chicago Neo-Con godfathers Leo Strauss and Allan Bloom, this world premiere takes Neil Simon's most famous play into Tom Stoppard territory and considers a society where the super-privileged can redesign the fabric of time and space.