Mastergate
by Larry Gelbart

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Present Day Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American

Synopsis

The Tony Award-winning playwright and creator of TV's MASH has fashioned a wickedly funny satire about the Iran-Contra Senate hearings and their participants.

A top-notch Hollywood cast, headed by Edward Asner and Walter Matthau, brings this scathing comedy to life.

A L.A.

Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Edward Asner, Melanie Chartoff, Jack Coleman, Eric Douglas, Charles Durning, Judyann Elder, Hector Elizondo, Robin Gammell, Harold Gould, Arye Gross, Walter Matthau, John Randolph, William Schallert, Joe Spano, Jesse White and Harris Yulin.

Press Reviews

"A chilling specter of more clandestine plans being hatched by fanatical nobodies passing through the government on their way to either jail or higher office."

— The New York Times

"Scathingly funny."

— Newsweek

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1990
Binding Paperback
Pages 80
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573691485
ISBN-10 0573691487
LCCN 90198870
LCC PS3557.E368 M37 1990
DCC 812/.52

Mastergate is a American play written by Larry Gelbart and published by Samuel French in New York (1990).

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