
Description
Product Details
Publisher | Theatre Communications Group |
Publish Date | November 01, 1999 |
Pages | 300 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781559361736 |
Dimensions | 8.6 X 5.5 X 0.8 inches | 0.9 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
"The theatre of parody and travesty became art in the plays of Charles Ludlam, a writer and comedian who manifested in his many plays a truly Aristophanic joy, precision, wit, and shamelessness."- Donald Lyons, Wall Street Journal
"Far from shying away from theatrical cliches, Ludlam indulges them to the dizzy limit; the familiar becomes the outrageous, and the result is good farce." -Chicago Reader
"The Mystery of Irma Vep is the most perfect expression of Ludlam's approach to theatre: a play that simultaneously provokes terror, laughter and a grotesque mockery of all gender, literary and special boundaries." -Michael Feingold, Village Voice
"Charles Ludlam's manic, ingenious gothic spoof The Mystery of Irma Vep may be the late author's most delightful creation, a tour de force for two actors that piles on the preposterous plot twists while spewing out a dizzying spray of high- and low-culture in-jokes...exquisitely silly." -Charles Isherwood, Variety
"Bawdy, rip-roaring comedy, scintillating drama and plot twists that involve vampires, werewolves and men in drag, The Mystery of Irma Vep serves up all this and more in a sidesplitting two-hour show." -Chicago Theater Beat
"In Camille, Charles Ludlam's hysterical way with the Lady of the Camellias takes the doomed Dumas and Verdi heroine-via George Cukor and Greta Garbo-to unexpected heights of pathos and laughter." -San Francisco Chronicle
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