Dimly Perceived Threats To The System
by Jon Klein

Name: Dimly Perceived Threats To The System
Brand: Jon Klein
SKU: 9780822216773
Rating: 3 (4 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

90 minsUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers find 'Dimly Perceived Threats To The System' similar in tone to other plays but less humorous. One reviewer notes that it feels somewhat dated despite its relatively recent creation.

Interesting thematic resemblanceEngaging subject matterLacks humorFeels a bit dated

Synopsis

THE STORY: Maryls Hauser is a management consultant who can't seem to manage the slightest problem at home.

Her husband, Josh, is developing a film about the American Family in Crisis--while slipping into an affair with his own producer.

Their comic

Press Reviews

"Here's a play whose point about fractured families goes to the heart, mind—and ears.“ —Washington Post. ”…an end-of-the millennium comedy about a family on the verge of a nervous breakdown…Trenchant and hilarious…“ —Baltimore Sun. ”…Jon Klein's very dark, very trenchant and very funny comedy about family life in the 1990s…[is] a wonderfully quirky and novel look at the American family's disarray and dissolution…Klein's tone…is steeped in dark humor, inviting us to laugh at despair even as we recognize the shards of truth running through it…What makes THREATS so thoroughly enjoyable are the flights of fancy, desire and fear that…envelop its characters."
— Minneapolis Star Tribune