The Day Room
by Don Delillo

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One Act 90 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings American Comedy

Synopsis

A black comedy by well-known novelist offers thoughts on the nature of illness, death, and reality.

Press Reviews

"The first play by one of America's most successful and respected novelists, this surreal comedy is both perplexing and consistently amusing as it probes the limits of reality through a Pirandelloesque examination of a bizarre sequence of ambiguous events—and people. “THE DAY ROOM is an intellectual mystery, a metaphysical comedy, and absurdist riddle.” —Boston Herald. “…a cheerful, often hilariously wicked, commentary on life and death, both seen in terms of a theatrical event.” —New York Post. “DeLillo gives his characters incisively lunatic commentaries on death, the nature of illness, the hierarchical abuses of power and on reality itself."

— San Francisco Chronicle

Publication

Year 1998
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822202783
ISBN-10 0822202786

The Day Room is a American comedy play written by Don Delillo and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).

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