“The world keeps ending and we are still fine. We lose sight that heaven on earth is in the tiny details. Even while you are looking at an apocalypse, you can find a perfect moment in a cup of coffee, sitting on a beach at night, or a kitten.”

“The stage pictures here are sumptuous feasts for the eyes and the text is unconditionally brilliant… The words, full of subtle meanings, can resonate in a viewer’s head long after the play has ended. Each line of text raises important questions without providing direct, succinct answers. The actors all have great skill in how to turn a phrase, pacing their speeches with perfect timing. In addition, the movement work in this production is exquisite. All of the performers are superb in their various roles.”

“With its avant-garde playfulness and abstract poignancy, Heaven on Earth offers a slice of postmodern paradise.”

“…leave it to veteran theater collagist Charles Mee to jell disparate elements into a variegated but united front. The New York troupe Witness Relocation has teamed with the Gallic outfit Collective ildi ! eldi to execute Mee’s latest bricolage with gazelle-like grace and crisp End Times elan. Using dance, monologue, sketch, and audiovisual anarchy, Heaven on Earth treats the possibility of love, fun, and the deep essential silliness of being alive, even amid the collapse of civilization. (And thanks to the often terrifying, occasionally molar-liquefying sound design, you absolutely will believe civilization’s collapsing — on the off chance you didn’t already.) It’s only playing through Sunday, so see it this weekend, before The End comes.”

“What a delight to spend an evening in Charles L. Mee’s Heaven on Earth playing this month at La MaMa E.T.C. Dan Safer skillfully weaves text, music, movement, video, and plenty of whimsy into this collaboration between Witness Relocation (USA) and Ildi! Eldi (France).”

“The resulting collage around Mee’s diffuse and lovely grid adds to the hyper, hectic texture created, as always, by Safer’s extraordinary approach to movement and text.”