The Loman Family Picnic
by Donald Margulies
Synopsis
THE STORY: The setting is a new luxury high-rise apartment with Spanish décor in Coney Island, the home of a middle-class Jewish family struggling to put up a good front even though continually short of cash.
The father, Herbie, who sells lightin
Press Reviews
"Alternating between fantasy and reality, this acerbic black comedy offers a comic, but stinging, assessment of middle-class Jewish life in today's America. “…bizarre and arresting family portrait…” —New York Post. “It manages the difficult and useful trick of being sad even in its funniness, funny even in its sadness.” —New York Magazine. “…there is a genuine power and pain in the writing…” —BackStage. “…bears the unmistakable imprint of a writer with a genuinely talented, distinctive voice."
— TheaterWeek
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The Loman Family Picnic is a American comedy play written by Donald Margulies and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1994).
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Dramatists Play Service · 1994 · 72 pp
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