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Below the Belt
Author(s):
Richard Dresser
Judd Hirsch started in this hilarious Off Broadway comedy set in a soulless corporate world. Dobbitt has been posted to a dismal distant place, a grim industrial compound
that uncomfortably resembles a prison where his quarters have bunks (one freezing cold and the other boiling hot), a table and an ancient typewriter. He is a checker; he
checks (though he has no idea what is being made) with an irascible coworker who has been in this place for years. Their inept boss possesses a singular talent for
fomenting dissent. The comic interplay among these men (one bullying and truculent, one ambitious and evasive and the third a trembling mass of insecurity and arrogance) is irresistibly funny. As they comically maneuver in their pointless quest for status, sinister little animals are encroaching on the compound. "Gloriously funny but also wickedly insightful, [this] bright new play . . . is never short of laugh lines . . . . Lurking beneath the almost farcical hilarity is a bundle of 20th century angst . . . . . Me jokes are beautifully in place, permitting the three gorgeously combative figures to emerge."-N.Y. Post. $6.00.
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| Genre(s): | Comedy
| | Time Period(s): | Contemporary 1950 -1990
| | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Average | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 3 | | Male Characters: | 3 | | Female Characters: | Not Available | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | $6.00 (Royalty $60-$40)
Royalty/cost information prone to change.
Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Samuel French
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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