But, Seriously
Julius J. Epstein
Impolite Comedy
by Joseph Hayes
Synopsis
At a fashionable country home a dinner party comically goes to pieces.
A publisher and his wife have invited a young novelist.
The publisher's purpose is to get the novelist's new book as his firm badly needs a best seller.
But everything goes wrong.
The publisher's mother, an amusing but difficult woman, has arrived unexpectedly.
Enter, also uninvited, a sophisticated mystery writer who may have had an affair with the publisher's wife.
The novelist proves more difficult than reputed and has in tow the girl he's currently living with and with whom he's been fighting all day.
No food and much booze makes for a hilarious brew and an evening turned to shambles with cross currents of revelations and accusations.
Press Reviews
"It's a honey ... a polite comedy gone mad."
— Washington Post
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 1977
Binding Paperback
Pages 93
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573610844
ISBN-10 0573610843
LCC PS3515.A942 I6
DCC 812/.5/4
Impolite Comedy is a American comedy play written by Joseph Hayes and published by Samuel French in New York (1977).
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