Idiot Box, The
- Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
- 6M, 4F
- ISBN: 9780573652370
Witty, audacious work succeeds brilliantly.
Variety
...what begins as a clever, amusing parody darkens into a savage indictment of the way television sells us a make-believe cocoon to insulate ourselves from reality.
The Los Angeles Times
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dark Comedy
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Set Requirements: Interior Set, Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Cautions: Alcohol, Drugs, Intense Adult Themes, Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language
- Performance Group:
- Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
REVIEWS:
A supremely confident new play from Michael Elyanow...
The Chicago Tribune
Witty, audacious work succeeds brilliantly
Variety
...what begins as a clever, amusing parody darkens into a savage indictment of the way television sells us a make-believe cocoon to insulate ourselves from reality.
The Los Angeles Times
Elyanow's intelligently crafted script is rife with humor and irony, and is superbly augmented by Jeremy B. Cohen's perceptive direction of the fine cast.
LA Weekly
...makes us laugh, makes us think, and leaves us talking about the role of art and entertainment in our lives.
ChicagoCritic.com
...ambitious and serious...an onion-like, multi-layered work...with a few Pirandellovian surprises.
The Windy City Times
Characters
- Casting: 6M, 4F
CHLOE - the spoiled rich girl. She's a curtain designer.
BILLY - the sex-crazed dummy. He's a model.
FIONA - the new age hippie. She's an acupuncturist.
CONNOR - the cynical husband. He's an ad agency exec.
STEPHANIE - the controlling wife. She's a romance novelist.
HARVEY - he's a doctor in the naval reserves.
RAYMOND - he's a drag queen/cabaret singer.
VERONICA - she's an Australian dog shusherer.
OMAR - he's a non-caucasian PhD student.
Available Material
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Idiot Box, The Script
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The Idiot Box is a comedy about what happens to six sitcom characters when Reality crashes into their lives. |
$24.95 |
