The Hotel Play
by Wallace Shawn

"A lively theatrical tour de force, this offbeat rendering of Grand Hotel is comprised of a series of brief scenes, some bitingly satiric, some outlandishly bizarre. The play provides a humorous but telling assessment of modern foibles and obsessions. “Shawn writes about contemporary life with a zest for detail and a flair for the fantastic that suggest the unlikely mating of Chekhov and Lewis Carroll; he can make the most trivial, fleeting comment sound unbearably sad and make the most bizarre grotesquerie not only believable but funny.” —Soho News. “…he adroitly transforms a far-flung collection of blackout bits into a ceaseless flow of life.” —The New York Times. “…one-third social satire, one-third surrealist nightmare, and one-third bittersweet romantic comedy."

— Village Voice