Johnson Plays: 1: Insignificance; Unsuitable for Adults; Cries from the Mammal House (Contemporary Dramatists)

ISBN: 0413682005

Author: Johnson, Terry

Condition: New

'Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety' GuardianInsignificance: 'At first glance it looks like a game of Theatrical Consequences. What if four icons of Ike's America - Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio and Senator McCarthy - met in a New York hotel room in 1953?... A piece that works on just about every level: the intellectual, the emotional, the playful...one of the landmark plays of the decade' Guardian'Compassionate, witty and intelligent'. Daily TelegraphUnsuitable for Adults 'Set in the world of pub entertainment in Paddington - lunchtimes of striptease, evenings of the more violent kind of comic routine... it's a very funny play and very clever' Sunday Times'Johnson's script, funny and horrifying by turns, and maturely refusing to assume anything about its characters, is as fine and enduring a depiction of the current state of play in the world of love, sex, and comedy as anything ever seen on the London stage.' Time OutCries from the Mammal House: 'Set in a small English private zoo and also in the bowels of anyone who has ever had to take responsibility for others... Freewheeling tough, lyrical and thrillingly unpredictable' Sunday Times'Glittering like a ball of mercury as it darts erratically hither and thither.' Daily Telegraph