Don't Drink the Water
- Full Length Play, Comedy, 1960s, 1970s
- 12M, 4F
- ISBN: 9780573608179
A cascade of comedy and a solid hit on Broadway, this affair takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Cautions: Mild Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, College Theatre / Student
An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of spying and picture taking. It's not much of a refuge, for the ambassador is absent and his son, now in charge, has been expelled from a dozen countries and the continent of Africa.
Nevertheless, they carefully and frantically plot their escape, and the ambassador's son and the caterer's daughter even have time to fall in love.
REVIEWS:
"Moved the audience to great laughter... Allen's imagination is daffy, his sense of the ridiculous is keen and gags snap, crackle and pop."
New York Daily News
"It is filled with... bright and hilarious dialogue."
New York Post
Don't Drink the Water was first presented on Broadway by David Merrick in association with Jack Rollins and Charles Joffe at the Morosco Theatre in New York City on November 17, 1966. It was directed by Stanley Prager.
Characters
- Casting: 12M, 4F
AMBASSADOR MAGEE
KILROY
AXEL MAGEE
MARION HOLLANDER
WALTER HOLLANDER
SUSAN HOLLANDER
KROJACK
BURNS
CHEF
SULTAN OF BASHIR
SULTAN'S FIRST WIFE
KASNAR
COUNTESS BORDONI
NOVOTNY
WALTER
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