On the night Faustus concludes his bargain with Mephistopheles, he apologizes to a group of random people for his failure to keep a diary of his fabulous life.

Praise for An Apology…

“A decade ago, the initial run of this diabolically clever monologue established the singular genius of playwright Mickle Maher, insouciantly infecting the Western canon with his dark brand of whimsy…(and) did we mention the play’s hilarious?” —Time Out Chicago

“Intellectually spry and surprisingly funny…a fascinating piece of avant-garde Chicago brain candy.” Highly Recommended —Chicago Tribune

“An Apology…quite simply put, is one of the most incomparable undertakings that has graced the stage… (a) complete masterpiece.” —Chicago Stage Review

“It’s hard to miss Mickle Maher’s brilliance in this ingenious retooling of the Faust legend.” —Chicago Reader

“One can see… not only Maher’s passionate engagements with language at diverse levels—from the rhetorical mastery of syntax and cadence to the semantic wizardry of words, their ability to conjure habitable worlds out of bare ice and air—but also two of the issues that drive Maher throughout his various theatrical follies. There is the idea of the impossible or meaningless project as not just an intellectual limit or an aesthetic curiosity, but an ethical necessity: a ‘life-duty.’ And there is the sense of inescapable loneliness heightened by the attempt to communicate, as though the fundamental ethical task is to make one’s own singularity intelligible and thereby transcend it—a task which in Maher’s universe seems inevitably doomed to failure.” —John Beer, The Point

“Superb…miss (this play) at your peril.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel