Lawrence & Holloman
by Morris Panych

Name: Lawrence & Holloman
Brand: Morris Panych
SKU: 9780889223929
Rating: 4 (9 reviews)

Lawrence & Holloman Book Cover — Lawrence & Holloman Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Male

Canadian

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the quick pace and witty dialogue of the play, noting its macabre absurdist charm. Many find the dark comedy appealing, despite some predictability in the plot. Overall, it has been well-received as a winning two-hander effort from Panych.

Quick-paced and wittyDarkly comic treatMacabre absurdist charmPredictable plot twists

Synopsis

Lawrence and Holloman, a hapless nerd and a loquacious salesman, meet by chance.

From this fleetingly irritating and insignificant encounter, the viciously murderous and incredulously bizarre plot emerges into the full-blown twilight of what appear to be their insignificant and meaningless lives.

And it is this very absence of significance and meaning in the lives of the characters which produces both the mindless evil and the greeting-card redemption that give them their shape.

This is a universe in which Camus meets Dali, where Goya meets Disney, where gunshots and bathtub drownings, disillusion and dismemberment become the Seventh Seal of the Grey Flannel set.

Cast of 2 men

ThemesPR9199.3.P325 L36 1998