‍A Phoenix Too Frequent and The Harmfulness of Tobacco are a unique combination and a perfect celebration of a unique company’s 10th anniversary. We hope you will join us for an evening of laughter as we inaugurate another decade of important work.​ A Phoenix Too Frequent was written for and performed at the Mercury Theatre in London in 1946. It is “not only positive, but positively ebullient. Although Phoenix takes place entirely in a tomb, the dead body of its new occupant lying covered upstage throughout, the vitality and energy of life dispel the potential gloom of this situation.” (Glenda Leeming, 1990)​ “Fry has written his most impressive play… The play’s symbolism is effectively embodied in its metaphorical chiaroscuro of day and night, death and life, demonstrating the resurrection of love, the Phoenix, from its ashes and new love from a dead husband’s corpse.” (Emil Roy, 1968)​ “Out of the conventional laughingstock of the hen-pecked husband Chekhov creates a character who is completely three-dimensional, and the balance between pathetic and comic is seen very clearly in the characterization.” (Vera Gottlieb, 1982)