Grown Ups
by Jules Feiffer

Name: Grown Ups
Brand: Jules Feiffer
SKU: 9780573609800
Rating: 3.04 (27 reviews)

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

Interior Set American Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about the play, with some finding it humorous while others deem it irritating and misogynistic. The lack of resolution and unlikable characters also stand out in the critique, leading to a generally divisive reception among audiences.

Savage humor Insightful family dynamics Unlikable characters Lacks completion

Synopsis

Comedy about a Jewish middle-aged journalist (Jake) and how he, his parents, his wife, and his sister communicate with each other.

Press Reviews

"Savagely funny."
— The New York Times

"A laceratingly funny play about the strangest of human syndromes" - the love that kills rather than comforts. Feiffer's vision seems merciless, but its mercy is the fierce comic clarity with which he exposes every conceivable permutation of smooth-tongued cruelty...Feiffer constructs a fiendishly complex machine of reciprocal irritation in which Jake (the journalist), his parents, his wife and his sister carp, cavil, harass, hector and finally attack one another with relentless trivia and dedonate deeply buried resentments like emotional land mines...This farce is Feiffer's exclusive specialty, and it's never been more harrowingly hilarious."
— Newsweek