cover image by Lee Moyer
“Jeff
Goode's deeply silly, thoroughly enjoyable period satire on sexual hypocrisy.
Goode can tease the bejesus out of a comic premise, and his gleeful dismantling
of the British gentry's corseted mores spins into an unhinged anarchy that would
please past masters Wilde and Coward.”
Los Angeles Times
“Few
fellows have found fancier, funnier ways to turn a phrase than Jeff Goode, who
with his new work pays homage to the humorous plays of the Victorian era and
injects a healthy dose of modern edge to the clever dialogue, loaded with
alliteration.”
Back Stage
“Jeff Goode has fashioned a faux British Victorian farce that is linguistically
bracing. A capable ensemble serves up arched barbs and ripostes.”
Variety
“A perfectly calibrated
send-up of English gothic literature.... Goode's clever writing comes marbled
with alliterations and a well-sculpted structure…. Funny stuff!”
L A Weekly
“Ingenious wordplay
drives…verbal virtuoso Jeff Goode's…playful homage to drawing room comedy!”
Houston Chronicle
4 M, 3 F
originally produced the Circle X Theater, Los Angeles
I S B N: 0-88145-385-4, $12.95