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title:Signs of Life : Six Comedies of Menace
author:Schenkar, Joan.; Patraka, Vivian.
publisher:Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin:0819563226
print isbn13:9780819563224
ebook isbn13:9780585371177
language:English
subjectAmerican drama.
publication date:1998
lcc:PS3569.C4829S5 1998eb
ddc:813/.54
subject:American drama.
Signs of Life
CABIN FEVER
This riveting comedy of menace features three malevolent oldsters sitting on a country porch in an imaginary New England, reciting horrifyingly funny stories about the customs of their nearest neighbors.
"The real world of the play is the familiar haunted by the unknown, parody colliding into cartoon, as if an antic Samuel Beckett has allowed himself to be kidnapped by a gloomily playful Charles Addams."
Village Voice
"A compellingly ambiguous static drama, at times suggesting an allegory of a society gone sour on itself or a spiteful game played by malevolent gods atop some Appalachian Olympus."
Los Angeles Times
Cabin Fever has been produced around the globe.
SIGNS OF LIFE
Signs of Life is a bizarre and elegantly witty drawing room comedy presenting eminent Victorians actual and fictitious as they perform their lives and experiment on their loved ones. The novelist Henry James rifles the imagination of his powerful sister Alice, who stages public fits, keeps a private journal, and has a female lover who prefers Henry dead; the drunken impresario P. T. Barnum exhibits his miraculous "Elephant Woman," Jane Merrit, who is too like Alice James for anyone's comfort; and the suave and sinister Dr. Sloper is far too interested in the scientific possibilities of the bodies of both ladies.
At the center of the play is a mad tea party at which Dr. Sloper and Henry James continually toast the health of "the ladies" who meet only in the men's stories of them.
"An original drama on a provocative theme, advanced in an elegant and literate voice... What more can anybody ask from a new play?"
New York Post
"A true gem... full of surgical imagery and brilliant giggly horridness."
Village Voice
Signs of Life is one of the most widely produced experimental comedies of its kind.
FULFILLING KOCH'S POSTULATE
In this internationally acclaimed dark comedy, cooking and death, art and science are served up in wonderfully delectable forms in both the kitchen and the
laboratory. Koch's Postulate features Typhoid Mary as the live-in chef of Dr. Koch, the scientist who identifies the bacillus she spreads so liberally through her cooking. In its up-to-the-minute, comic book, Katzenjammer style, Koch's Postulate balances the beauties of art and the dangers of science in a murderously funny comedy of cooking and eating for four unforgettable characters.
"... darkly hilarious and brilliantly creepy."
Village Voice
"Schenkar is an original: her narrative drive springs from menace."
Time Out (London)
THE LAST OF HITLER
In this brilliant and timely comedy of menace, a post-war Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun are trapped in a Jewish retirement community in Florida, surrounded by the people they so recently tried to exterminate. This dazzling language-opera is staged as a 1940s radio broadcast complete with announcers, commercials for Rinso-Blue, and a "How to Cook a Kosher Chicken" show in which much more than the kosher chicken is cooked. It features singing and dancing Russian nurses, Edgar BergenCharlie MacCarthy routines with a talking skeleton, the psychoanalysis of Adolf Hitler by Dr. Wilhelm Reich, and a radio appearance by the Dionne Quintuplets.
THE UNIVERSAL WOLF
The Universal Wolf, one of the most-produced comedies in colleges and little the-aters for the last two years, is the quintessential send-up of both the Little Red Riding Hood tale and modern French criticism. Featuring the Wolf as a French Structuralist, Grandmother as a retired butcher with a very good cutting arm, Little Red Riding Hood as the insufferable brat everyone wants to eat, and a role for the Audience, The Universal Wolf delivers a side-splitting comedy for four characters that has delighted theatergoers across the country and around the world.
BURNING DESIRES
An entirely new and fiercely comedic reinvention of the story of Joan of Arc: this time Joan is a teenager in 1950s Seattle, where it's far too wet to burn her. She drives a Triumph convertible, goes on the warpath with a fabulous Native American Princess, and is advised by those mid-twentieth-century icons, Saint Marlene Dietrich, Saint Gertrude Stein, Saint Emily Bront, and Saint Emily Dickinson. Featuring mad doctors, bad girl and boy scouts, and a teen-aged Gilles de Raix, Burning Desires is a wonderfully rollicking and literate comedy for all ages.
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Signs of Life
Six Comedies of Menace
Joan M. Schenkar
Edited and with an introduction by Vivian Patraka
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Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Wesleyan University Press
Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755
Collection copyright 1998 by Joan M. Schenkar
Introduction copyright 1998 by Vivian Patraka
CABIN FEVER copyright 1980, 1984 by Joan M. Schenkar
SIGNS OF LIFE copyright 1979, 1980 by Joan M. Schenkar
FULFILLING KOCH'S POSTULATE copyright 1985 by Joan Schenkar
THE LAST OF HITLER copyright 1982 by J. M. Schenkar, revised J. M. Schenkar
THE UNIVERSAL WOLF copyright 1993 by J. M. Schenkar
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