Over My Dead Body presented by Waltzing Mechanics at The Greenhouse Theater Center

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...The resulting 90-minute show alternates between the dutiful (lamentations that deceased loved ones are no longer at rest) and the sobering (chronicles of government officials treating religious representatives like inconsequential nuisances). Director Thomas Murray weakens the show's impact by accompanying practically every monologue with a perfunctory reenactment and plunking three sleepy dead people centerstage, where they're almost always in the way."

Windy City Times - Recommended

"...If the Mechanics' efforts to provoke contemplation of our own final rests occasionally become protracted, however, the empathy they engender puts a human face on the conflict between reverence for the dead and progress for the living. "They're Moving Father's Grave To Build A Sewer" isn't just an Irish pub song, you know."

Centerstage - Recommended

"... I applaud the Waltzing Mechanics for using their talents and craft to tell community stories. I appreciated hearing a story about today’s Chicago - the city whose shadow I dwell under. I found it educational. It’s good to know what happens when City Hall wants something to happen. Who knows? The next neighborhood O’Hare expands to might be mine."