Children! Children!
by Jack Horrigan
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Readers find the memoir of Oscar Levant to be a fascinating and humorous insight into the life of a troubled genius. Many appreciate the mix of wit and dark themes surrounding his struggles with addiction and fame. However, some note that the structure can be disjointed and at times egocentric.
Synopsis
On New Year's Eve a fashionable couple depart for a party with a doctor and his wife, leaving their precocious children, 3 pre teen boys and a girl, in the care of a new baby sitter whose conscience requires her to announce that she recently recovered from a nervous breakdown.
The children proceed to torture the baby sitter, beginning with a story of how a previous baby sitter dropped dead right before their eyes of a heart attack, proceeding through sadistic turns, including a pitch at lovemaking by first the boy and then the girl, and ending with a tumble down the stairs.
On returning home, the sitter is not able to convince the parents that it all happened; they merely think her still mentally unstable.
Then we in turn see in the viciousness of the parents the source of the children's diabolism.
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"The tension is continuous."
— New York Post
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Children! Children! is a play written by Jack Horrigan and published by Samuel French (1989).
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