Just Say No
by Larry Kramer

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Highlights

1980s Interior Set Comedy

Synopsis

The scandals of the Reagan administration are dramatized in farcical style.

The First Lady must locate, before it is too late, a home made sex videotape on which she cavorts with the husband of her best friend, with his mistress who knows much too much, and with members of her husband's cabinet.

In addition, her son decides to run away to become a ballet dancer and, along the way, falls in love with the ex boyfriend in hiding of the angry mayor of the largest northeastern city.

Everyone meets, or tries not to, in the Georgetown home of Foppy Schwartz, friend to the rich and powerful, where first ladies and mayors drop in and refuse to leave.

Just Say No is a hysterically funny satire that has a great deal to say about the state of our union.

Press Reviews

"Beneath the brittle, pun filled dialogue, Kramer's rage against people in high places simmers. The dialogue is deliriously artificial and crackling."

— N.Y. Times

"Just Say No risks everything by turning rage to farce and back again. I'm ready to go anywhere Kramer wishes to take me."

— Village Voice

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780802139160
ISBN-10 0802139167

Just Say No is a comedy play written by Larry Kramer and published by Samuel French .

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