Private Jokes, Public Places

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Author: Oren Safdie

ISBN-10: 0822220016

ISBN-13: 9780822220015

Category: Canadian Drama

A female architecture student defends her thesis project, a swimming pool facility. With intellectual pretension and a great deal of pontificating, her advisors challenge her difference, leading her to turn the tables on them with a spectacular and unexpected action.

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A female architecture student defends her thesis project, a swimming pool facility. With intellectual pretension and a great deal of pontificating, her advisors challenge her difference, leading her to turn the tables on them with a spectacular and unexpected action.Wall Street JournalImplausible as it may sound, Mr. Safdie has done the impossible: He's written an unpretentiously witty play of ideas about some of the most pretentious ideas known to man. Instead of telling you what to think, he leaves the thinking to you, and in between the laughs you'll do plenty of it...The funniest new play to hit New York in months.

\ A.P.A smart and rewarding new play. Remarkable!\ \ \ \ \ L.A. TimesAnyone who has ever suffered through a dry academic symposium, with various ‘experts' pontificating will find much to hoot about...\ \ \ New YorkerAn X-Acto-blade-sharp new comedy that doubles as a cry of indignation. Safdie exposes the emperor's new blueprints for all to see!\ \ \ \ \ NY TimesInspired and astonishing...The verbal dexterity alone is mesmerizing. A battle of wits between four sharply defined characters. An hour and a quarter of laughter.\ \ \ \ \ Time OutA biting satire with a humanist heart—seldom has theory-bashing been dramatized with such erudition and wit. The more of it you know, the funnier—and more frightening—the play is. A take-no-prisoners comedy.\ \ \ \ \ Wall Street JournalImplausible as it may sound, Mr. Safdie has done the impossible: He's written an unpretentiously witty play of ideas about some of the most pretentious ideas known to man. Instead of telling you what to think, he leaves the thinking to you, and in between the laughs you'll do plenty of it...The funniest new play to hit New York in months.\ \