Welcome to the Monkey House
By Christopher Sergel. Based on short stories by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Product Code: W15000
Full-length Play
Drama
Cast size: 10m., 14w. (Flexible.)
Rights and availability
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Synopsis
Its theatrical excitement comes from the brilliant words and the dazzling display of original ideas. Vonnegut begins with a moving episode about right now in which a young man searches for companionship and identity through participation in amateur theatricals, appropriately entitled Who Am I This Time? An edged satire of the future concludes the first act. The Time's literary critic describes Vonnegut as "... a zany but moral mad scientist at the controls of a literary time machine. He is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer. Though Vonnegut is knocking a misplaced sense of values by showing the horrifying results, he's doing it with an irreverent chuckle." The final scene, entirely realistic and modern, gets to the heart of what really concerns young people as a music teacher fights to salvage a rebellious young man, explaining to him how one might bring beauty into the world. "Love yourself," the teacher tells him, "and make your instrument sing about it."
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show Full-length Play
- Product Code W15000
- Minimum Cast Size 24
- Pages of Dialogue 87
- Min. Royalty Rate $90.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 110 min
- Staging Bare stage w/props.
Categories
- Target Audience High School | College and Adult
- Performing Group High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre
- Genre Drama
- ISBN(13) 9780871295750
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