THE STORY: Betty is looking forward to her summer share at the ocean. But Trudy, whom she knows only slightly, chatters incessantly; and then there are the other housemates - sexy lout Buck, who's pathologically on the make with women all the time, and sweet, withdrawn Keith who carries a shovel and a mysterious hatbox and just may be a serial killer. Then the emotionally anarchic landlady, Mrs. Siezmagraff, moves in too; and she invites a crazy derelict to dinner, and, well, the vacation becomes more and more of a strain for poor Betty. Not to mention there seems to be a laugh track coming from the ceiling that no one seems able to shut up. Death, destruction, mayhem - Betty finds it all in her seaside retreat.

"Incest, dismemberment, and a laugh track as a Greek chorustheater, praise be, can still go where other forms of art cannotan ecstatically angry new comedyrelentlessly fierce, relentlessly funny" - NY Times. "This is a sweet night that has little to offend any but the thinnest skinned among us." - NY Newsday. "the funniest new farce in yearsthe play lifts off from the ground of brilliantly naturalistic comedy into the stratosphere of zany satireby far Durang's best." - NY Post.

Publisher

Dramatists Play Service Inc.

Format

Play

Binding

Softcover

ISBN

9780822217664

Stock code

9780822217664

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