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The Hotel Play
Author(s):
Wallace Shawn
The setting is a hotel in the tropics where a beleaguered desk clerk tries to placate, amuse and occasionally seduce the widely varied clientele who come and go during the course of the play’s quick flowing action, each acting out a brief but telling personal vignette. The guests, mostly neurotic in one way or another, represent a broad cross section of modern society and reflect the hang-ups and social shortcomings so prevalent in contemporary life. But despite its ironic approach--and characters--the play is ultimately a paean to the well-ordered and comfortably ordinary--qualities so elusive and rare, and yet so desirable, in our unsettled and unsettling times.
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Genre(s): | Comedy
Drama
| Time Period(s): | Not Available | Play Type: | Play | Runtime: | Not Available | Acts: | Not Available | Set Complexity: | Not Available | Set Information: | Not Available | Year First Published: | Not Available | Total Characters: | 20 | Male Characters: | 50 | Female Characters: | 50 | Androgynous Characters: | -80 | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | Cost: | FEE: $50 per performance Royalty/cost information prone to change. Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | ISBN: | Not Available |
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