Barnhouse Effect, The
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Between Time and Timbuktu (or Prometheus 5)
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Synopsis
Producers may treat this script as an unmatriced melange, on the order of a revue, or as a simulated TV program, complete with flashing slides (the playbook has myriad illustrations).
Roughly—and only roughly—it's the story of Stony Stevenson, a youth who wins a rocket trip on Prometheus 5.
Off he goes into the wild blue yonder to the Chrono-Synclastic Infundibulum.
But they lose him, and he regains consciousness back on earth, where he has to beg a dime from a wino in order to call Mission Control.
Of course, it's not that easy, and he ends up in a cryogenics lab, just before or after meeting Wanda June.
Hitler is in there too, along with Walter Gesundheit, and other old familiars.
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Between Time and Timbuktu (or Prometheus 5) is a comedy play written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr and published by Samuel French .
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