Plays: "Insignificance", "Unsuitable for Adults", "Cries from the Mammal House" Vol 1 (Methuen Modern Plays): Plays One

by Terry Johnson (Author)

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  1993

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  Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety (Guardian) Insignificance: 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); Unsuitable 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); Cries 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)

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  Paperback
  1993

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  Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety (Guardian) Insignificance: 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); Unsuitable 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); Cries 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)