Dunelawn
by Terrence Mcnally

Broadway
Dunelawn Book Cover
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Highlights

One Act 45 mins 1970s Bare Stage/Simple Set Period Costumes Comedy

Synopsis

THE STORY: In DUNELAWN we are in an expensive retreat for the unhappily married where the saintly Dr. Toynbee injects his straight-jacketed charges with tranquilizing drugs to calm such urges—but the catalogue of aberrations revealed in his patients is subjected to close, and enormously funny, scrutiny.

Press Reviews

"Winner of the 1974 Obie Award for Distinguished Play.   One of a pair (under the omnibus title of Bad Habits) of brilliantly satirical plays offering a biting and hilarious study of events in two very singular sanitariums.   “…really funny…goes to prove that laughter is the best medicine.” —The New York Times.   ”Terrence McNally gets funnier and funnier. His Bad Habits is a twin bill and it's funny enough for two theatres.“ —New York Daily News.   ”…the best comedy so far this season…“ —Variety.   ”…inspired madness of the highest order."

— Cue Magazine

Characters

Character
MR. BLUM
MR. PONCE
HUGH GUMBS
RUTH BENSON, R.N.
MR. YAMADORO
DR. TOYNBEE
BECKY HEDGES, R.N.
BRUNO
ROY PITT
HIRAM SPANE
JASON PEPPER, M.D.
APRIL PITT
HARRY SCUPP
FRANCIS TEAR
DOLLY SCUPP
OTTO

Publication

ISBN-13 9780822214359
ISBN-10 0822214350

Dunelawn is a comedy play written by Terrence Mcnally and published by Dramatists Play Service .

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