“Louis Phillips invented Jimmy, and deserves
full marks for it. If his play reminds us of THE SUNSHINE BOYS crossed with THE
HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES, the blend still seems fresh. This is how it feels to be
trapped in your own `bits’ —the mind unable to beat except in gag
rhythms, and nobody buys the gags anymore.”
Dan Sullivan, The Los Angeles Times
“Here is a piece of theater you absolutely must not miss…. This fine, touching,
inventive, and gorgeously zany play is about—you guess it—the failure of the
American dream.”
Jonathan Saville, Weekly Reader (San Diego)
“It is strong and clever in its methodical pursuit of madness. It is studded
with non sequiturs, puns, riddles, and sight-gags, running wild or
worked into routines and shticks.”
Charlie Farber, Los Angeles Free Press
“The plays is framed in an exciting, almost frenetic mixture of wild imagery and
stark reality…. It is a nonstop bombardment of the senses and the mind.”
Bill Hagen, The San Diego Evening Tribune
4 M, 1 F
Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego
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