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The End of the Day
Author(s):
Jon Robin Baitz
This comic foray into greed and indifference stars a dissipated, upper-crust expatriate British psychiatrist/oncologist turned hustler in sunny Los Angeles. The cad abandons his Beverly Hills practice and rich wife for service in a ghetto clinic. When his gangsterish former father-in-law demands repayment of the three-quarters of a million dollars spent to educate and set him up in practice, he traipses off to London to beg the loot from his estranged family. The doctor is a perfect foil for the remaining cast members who each play an American and a British role, all of them speldidly hilarious screwball characters. The doctor eventually ties the evils of his worlds into one smashingly corrupt con that entangles international shipping, a movie studio, a priceless George Stubbs canvas, a cocaine network, and a beneficent foundation. The playwright's comic net ensnares Los Angeles and London, the health-car system, the mob, the film and the art worlds, disillusioned lefties, lost fathers, loveless mothers, disposable wives, and the selfishly charitable in his hilarious portrayal of a hapless world.
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| Genre(s): | Comedy
Drama
| | Time Period(s): | Post-Modern 1990 - present
| | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | 1992 | | Total Characters: | 6 | | Male Characters: | 4 | | Female Characters: | 2 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | $6.00 (Royalty $75-$50)
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: | 0573693870
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