Grown Ups
by Jules Feiffer

Grown Ups Book Cover
Grown Ups Cover

Synopsis

Comedy about a Jewish middle-aged journalist (Jake) and how he, his parents, his wife, and his sister communicate with each other.

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"Savagely funny."

— The New York Times

"A laceratingly funny play about the strangest of human syndromes" - the love that kills rather than comforts. Feiffer's vision seems merciless, but its mercy is the fierce comic clarity with which he exposes every conceivable permutation of smooth-tongued cruelty...Feiffer constructs a fiendishly complex machine of reciprocal irritation in which Jake (the journalist), his parents, his wife and his sister carp, cavil, harass, hector and finally attack one another with relentless trivia and dedonate deeply buried resentments like emotional land mines...This farce is Feiffer's exclusive specialty, and it's never been more harrowingly hilarious."

— Newsweek

"A compelling, devastating evening of theatre...the first adult play of the season."

— Women's Wear Daily

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1982
Binding Paperback
Pages 94
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573609800
ISBN-10 0573609802
LCCN 83112950
LCC PS3556.E42 G7 1982
DCC 812/.54

Grown Ups is a American comedy play written by Jules Feiffer and published by Samuel French in New York (1982).

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