The Prince And Mr. Jones
by Samuel Spewack

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

120 minsInterior SetComedy

Synopsis

A lacerating, bitter but wildly funny black comedy, which offers a scathing appraisal of the social ills besetting contemporary Britain.

Not unlike Joe Orton, Mr. Lucie propels his play's action with the devices of boulevard comedy--all the better to upen

Press Reviews

"Originally produced in New York as Once There Was a Russian. Based on the actual events involving John Paul Jones, Prince Potemkin and Catherine the Great of Russia, the play proves again, with crackling humor, how history invariably manages to repekeyboard commandat itself. “…it is the most entertaining whack at Russian—and early American—foibles in a long time."
— Wall Street Journal

"The new play abounds in laughter…"
— New York Telegraph

"…Sam Spewack has written an amusing, ultimately trenchant charade…"
— Washington Post

"The playwright has drawn a magnificent etching of Potemkin, his lust for power, his cynicism, his rascality, and his surface urbanity, and even his hypocritical effusions of affection."
— Women's Wear Daily