Praise for Cardboard Clouds

“It is known that inside every theater there is a ghost. Less-known is that inside every ghost there is a theater. Not only does Ben Niespodziany know this, he allows us to enter that theater-in-the-ghost and gives us front row seats to the plays that are staged there. The result is funny, playful, terrifying, violent, and deeply wise. It is my fervent hope that these plays are some day staged, and that the performance never ends.” — Jeremy Radin

“Take a wild ride through Niespodziany’s opulent mind and his ten types of clouds. Anything is possible in his great world, including a theater with “100 stomachs!” So many cardboard boxes here, you may need to forklift your way out of these fabulous language theater.” — Vi Khi Nao

“I was occasionally reminded of Daniil Kharms and Lewis Carroll, but that won’t surprise you. Read a page before ye rise and ye shall pass the day unscathed. Read a page before sleep and thou shalt dream insanely. These dark one act plays are strangely comforting and addictive.” — Alex van Warmerdam

“Niespodziany presents a darkly comedic portrayal of the human experience, riddled with irony and absurdity. ” — Mallory Smart, Maudlin House

“The cloud might once have been a door and might soon be a kazoo, a sequence that ideally reveals a deeper logic to reality than the one we commonly perceive. All art material is composed of bits and pieces of other art that has been reassembled for the purpose of creating a new illusion, a process that is foregrounded in metafiction. The difficulty and delight of Cardboard Clouds lies in holding all of these meanings in mind simultaneously.” — Peter Kline, Your Impossible Voice