Autumn, 2007 - Portland, Oregon

Within twenty-four hours (in which the moon covers the sun) the fool Mssr. P.T. Glee awakens, meets his comrades, falls in love, liberates some funds, goes to trial, and encounters a revolutionary future. An innocent? An imbecile? Or, our hero?

"Be terribly happy! Won't you?

It isn't midnight, but the hour of the good and kind people.

I won't stop saying Let-The-Sun-Live-Long." 

In a full re-imagining of the 1929 play Pantagleize by Belgium's playwright Michel de Ghelderode, this 'sleeper classic' reawakens itself in the troubling mornings of these terrible days. UTB serves-up a commedia feast of hurried humans, emblematic vegetables, masks & song. In our signature style of the 'unexpected', we premiered the piece in an intriguing warehouse, with masks designed by master maskmaker Jane Clugston.

The project was a palpable hit, and the audiences agreed: this new version of Pantagleize has much to say about the present state of things on the planet....it's an epic farce that will make you sadly happy and happily sad.

"I have my eye on you, Darkness. For I am certain that it is the loveliest day!"

Investigate the A LOVELY DAY subcategories in the Table of Contents (above, left) for a Gallery of DAY Images and DAY Director Notes.