Based On A Totally True Story
by Roberto Aguirre-sacasa

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45 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings American Comedy

Synopsis

THE STORY: A contemporary comedy that moves at the speed of lightning, BASED ON A TOTALLY TRUE STORY chronicles the hilarious, bittersweet misadventures of twenty-something New Yorker Ethan Keene.

A semi-successful comic book writer by day (he writ

Press Reviews

"There is no more entertaining show in town right now than Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's BASED ON A TOTALLY TRUE STORY.“ —New York Daily News. ”A brisk and breezy new comedy…Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa deftly weaves narrative, structure, and talk together into a supple flow…There's plenty of bittersweet truth to this contemporary look at love getting lost in the hustle of forging a career.“ —The Star-Ledger (NJ). ”…a promising personal-growth comedy about a young writer on the verge of his first big break and his first big break-up…[Aguirre-Sacasa] has a bam-pow rhythm and a jaunty way with the overlapping forces of emotional contradiction.“ —Newsday (NY). ”No laugh meter could measure the laughter here; it would require a seismograph. Some of the jokes may work better for insiders, but against such a no-holds-barred farce there can be no holdouts."

— Bloomberg

Publication

Year 2008
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822222248
ISBN-10 0822222248
LCCN 2010526458
LCC PS3601.G85 B3 2008
DCC 812/.6

Based On A Totally True Story is a American comedy play written by Roberto Aguirre-sacasa and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2008).

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