Insignificance: "at first glance it looks like a game of theatrical consequences. What if four icons of Ike's America - Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio and Senator McCarthy - met in a New York hotel room in 1953?…A piece that works on just about every level: the intellectual, the emotional, the playful…one of the landmark plays of the decade" (Guardian); Unsuitable for Adults "Set in the world of pub entertainment in Paddington - lunchtimes of striptease, evenings of the more violent kind of comic routine…it's a very funny play and very clever" (Sunday Times); Cries from the Mammal House: "Set in a small English private zoo and also in the bowels of anyone who has ever had to take responsibility for others…Freewheeling tough, lyrical and thrillingly unpredictable" (Sunday Times)
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"Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety"—Guardian
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Terry Johnson's previous plays for the Royal Court are Hitchcock Blonde, Hysteria and Insignificance. Other work includes an adaptation of The Graduate (Gielguld Theatre), Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle And Dick (National Theatre/winner Olivier Award for Best Comedy 1998), an adaptation of The London Cuckolds (National Theatre), Dead Funny (Hampstead Theatre/Vaudville/Tour/winner Critic Circle Award for Best Play, Time Out Drama Award 1994), Imagine Drowning (Hampstead/winner of the John Whiting Award 1991), Cries From The Mammal House (Leicester Haymarket/Royal Court), Unsuitable For Adults (Bush).
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This review is from: Johnson Plays: 1: Insignificance , Unsuitable for Adults , Cries from the Mammal House (Contemporary Dramatists) (Vol 1) (Paperback)
Great Piece. I used this with a group of High School Students and they found it accessible and provocative (at least the classroom discussions proved as much).
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