Cover photo by John Durant
The three full-length plays in this collection are:
HOSPITALITY
MINK SONATA
MOROCCO
full play descriptions below
PLAYS BY ALLAN HAVIS
I S B N 0-88145-071-5: $16.95
HOSPITALITY
"...To say that HOSPITALITY
by Allan Havis betokens an auspicious beginning is an
understatement of fairly large dimensions.
Nearly everything about this
production is first-rate. The script, an interrogation drama
which brilliantly defeats the normally static
two-characters-and-a-table configuration of the genre, not only
is tough and taut, but gratifyingly witty and urbane...."
Nels Nelson, Philadelphia
Daily News
"...a trenchant political
drama that belies its innocuous title....
An exceptional script...."
Hari., Variety
originally produced by the Philadelphia Theater Company
4 M, 1 F
MINK SONATA
"The family under
observation in Allan Havis's MINK SONATA has affluence and political
influence.... (In) this intriguing new play...the dialog is literate and often
amusing. Mr Havis has an ability to
make artificial language sound In character. He has captured the
jargon of people for whom solipsism may be an incurable
disease...."
Mel Gussow, The New York Times
first produced by BACA Downtown, Brooklyn NY
1 M, 2 F
MOROCCO
"Allan Havis's MOROCCO is
an absorbing cat-and-mouse game in which one cannot always
distinguish the cat from the mouse. Between the scenes and behind
the lines, there is far more here than meets the eye....
In what is partly a comedy of menace, Mr Havis artfully weaves a web of suspicion around his
three principal characters....
The author repeatedly encourages the audience's sense of wariness.
One starts to wonder if the characters are inhabiting a Morocco of the mind, or,
perhaps, a sanatorium. Step by step, we are led into Mr Havis's labyrinth.
Beneath the surface, the play is concerned with politics and
terrorism as well as with the polarities of personalities that
can inhabit a marriage....There are significant pieces studiously
missing in Mr. Havis's Pinteresque puzzle, a fact that enhances
the play's tantalizing air of mystery."
Mel Gussow, The New York Times
originally produced in New York by the W P A Theater
3 M, 1 F
Plays by Allan Havis
I S B N 0-88145-071-5: $16.95