Katherine refuses to eat blue M&Ms in protest of the tan ones being removed from the bag fifteen years ago; she likes to watch a pilates DVD from New Zealand and she hasn’t showered in a week. Her brother, Auggie, bursts on the scene in an effort to move her with a cabaret night club and an other-worldly charisma in tow. The only problem is: she doesn’t have a brother. Be the first to experience this new one-act musical. Sift through Katherine’s world of Pepperidge Farm Cookie boxes and heavily medicated day-mares to determine what is dream and what is reality — and what exactly are the consequences of tampering with the delicate balance in between? Featuring a six-piece band, Some Assembly Required blurs the lines between dream and reality, sanity and mania. Audience Responses: Some Assembly Required is definitely a power piece. It’s a cutting edge musical/media experience that dives headfirst into the world of mental illness. Sad, funny and beautiful. I could listen to the bongos all night.- Jackie Ruggiero JacobsonAs a student just beginning to really study and understand musical theater,"Some Assembly Required" opened my eyes to the great beyond: Beyond the Grease, the Hello Dolly, the Hairspray. It was like viewing something raw, something liberated. It was Kate Brennan's heart and multi-faceted mind tossed on a stage in an organized stream of consciousness."Some Assembly Required" was unlike anything I've ever seen before. It was fast pasted, complicated, and deeply moving.- Meg Pierce, Student Unlike many shows, SAR takes advantage of the audience's intelligence. They don't explain to or coddle the audience into feeling or thinking a certain way. They don't sing and talk to get a specific result or message across to the audience. Instead, they allow the audience to use their brains, decipher foreign languages and hidden morals at their own pace. They let us think - which I believe is a dying art of the audience, who normally just desires to be entertained.Not only did I have fun with this show - but it really made me think about my own life and its consumerism and sedation. I will never think about mustard again in the same way, either.- Samantha Kristina Clarke