Cover design by Steve Hoffman
This collection contains four full-length plays:
AN AMERICAN COMEDY
THE RETURN OF PINOCCHIO
BAL
CONJURING AN EVENT
(play descriptions below)
AN AMERICAN COMEDY AND OTHER PLAYS
Performing Arts
Journal Publications
ISBN 0-933826-70-2: $8.95
AN AMERICAN COMEDY
"...if you can believe that a play can be part ROOM SERVICE, part DAS CAPITAL and part HIS GIRL FRIDAY, you've got the premise of the wildly funny AN AMERICAN COMEDY.
The play is such an accurate pastiche of the time, that some audiences have taken it for a genuine comedy written in the 30's.
There's so many doors slammed, fires put out, trunks shut, typewriters ruined, disrobings, and darts thrown that at times you think you've wandered into a lost Marx Brothers comedy....
Diane Wright, The Herald
BAL
"Earthy, humorous and sometimes unspeakably cruel, Nelson's BAL presents a landscape of self-absorption with characters who have been saturated with the knowledge of themselves and thereby have relinquished their free will. A potentially searing new comic allegory about `I', the personal pronoun. The self--as in self-examination, self-knowledge, self-observation, self-obsession and contemporary self-help carried to its logical absurdity: the completely honest predator."
Linda Winer, Chicago Tribune
AN AMERICAN COMEDY AND OTHER PLAYS
Performing Arts
Journal Publications
ISBN 0-933826-70-2: $8.95
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