An Evening For Merlin Finch
by Charles Dizenzo
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Readers have mixed feelings about the play. Some found it lacking in substance and were disappointed with the overall experience.
Synopsis
This short play highlights one night in the life of the dysfunctional Finch family, made up of Frank--the bullying father, Darlene-- the loving but crazy mother, and Merlin--their nerdy bassoon-playing son.
Press Reviews
"First presented on a double bill with A Great Career, this enormously funny and imaginative play offers an incisive and lethal caricature of family life in suburbia. “…A wonderfully gifted comic sense"
— The New York Times
"…The best written play by a new playwright this season."
— Jersey Journal
Publication
An Evening For Merlin Finch is a American comedy play written by Charles Dizenzo and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).
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Dramatists Play Service · 1998 · 72 pp
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Restrictions: Major Markets Plus (US) / Standard Plus Add'l Postcodes (UK)
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