Who's on First? (Sharkey)
by Jack Sharkey


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Readers express disappointment with the play's racial stereotypes. While some moments are deemed funny, the overwhelming consensus is that the humor is overshadowed by offensive caricatures.
Synopsis
Take a husband, wife, lover and friend, add a strange lamp, a gun and a rubber chicken plus a party that begins at 8 p.m., then again at 8 p.m. and then again at 8 p.m. and you have this nightmare comedy.
Four people find themselves reliving one horrible hour over and over as themselves, as Japanese, as British aristocrats, as gangsters, and almost anything else you can think of.
Camille is giving the party.
Don shows up in a jealous funk about his wife, Alice, whom he suspects of seeing another man.
When Alice and Ben have arrived, it turns out their relationship is innocent.
But by the time Don realizes this he has already shot Ben, Alice and even Camille.
Camille wishes that things might have turned out differently and that is what happens.
All concerned find themselves back at the party's beginning again and again doomed to live that same hour over and over again until they get it right.
Is it all an accident?
Or is their dilemma part of someone's fiendish plan?
A labyrinth of hilarity exits to a shocker of an ending.
Characters
| Character |
|---|
Camille The Friend ? |
Ben The Lover ? |
Alice The Wife ? |
Don The Husband ? |
Publication
Who's on First? (Sharkey) is a comedy play written by Jack Sharkey and published by Samuel French (2011).
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Samuel French · 2011 · 90 pp
Performance Rights
Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)
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