Title | Oh, Hell!: Two One-Act Plays |
Author | David Mamet & Shel Silverstein |
Call Number | PS627.O53 O3 1991 |
Location | 2nd FL Theatre Scripts Collection |
Rating | Somewhat Recommended |
Book Review | These one-acts are naughty: the first--Bobby Gould in Hell--features a sardonic dialogue between civilians negotiating their eternal destiny with Hell's bureaucratic intermediaries, and the second--The Devil and Billy Markham--unfolds as a rhyming and unsavory to-Hell-and-back saga told by a guy with a mop. These one-acts premiered together at a very adult Lincoln Center evening in December 1989, ten years before Shel Silverstein's death, and ten years after Silverstein originally published The Devil and Billy Markham in Playboy. Only recommended for those willing to wade through some unapologetically indecent theater for this hidden facet of Silverstein as not-so-G-rated poet and playwright for grownups, paired well alongside the work of his Pulitzer Prize-winning colleague, David Mamet. |
Submitted By | Erin Rivero |
Department or Major | Leatherby Libraries |
Status | Staff |
Chapman Email | erivero@chapman.edu |
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Oh, Hell!: Two One-Act Plays
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