Smash
by Jeffrey Hatcher

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120 minsUnit Set/Multiple SettingsComedy

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Readers appreciate the humor and clever writing in the play. Many find it a smart satire that captures the essence of Shaw while being entertaining. Several reviews highlight its comedic elements and engaging dialogue, making it suitable for various audiences.

Clever and humorous writingEngaging dialogueSmart adaptation of ShawFun for all audiencesSome found it slow to start

Synopsis

Book by Jeffrey Hatcher

Press Reviews

"SMASH is witty, cunning, intelligent, and skillful. It is also generous, something cleverness isn't always. Like Tom Stoppard, the author makes you the audience feel just as clever as he. Brillliant writing.“ —Seattle Weekly. ”SMASH is a wonderfully high-style British comedy of manners that evokes the world of Shaw's high-minded heroes and heroines, but shaped by a postmodern sensibility…The result is uncanny, a hybrid with two voices that, depending on your reference points, either feels like the practice of channeling or more like a well-thought-out (albeit posthumous) artistic collaboration.“ —Seattle Herald. ”The story mixes equal parts political comedy with comedy of manners…it is a sparkling evening of Shaw for our post-Stoppard age, with loads of clever wordplay and impassioned debate about the structure of society and the preferred form of change…a fine evening out in high Shavian fashion."

— Backstage West

Publication

Year1997
BindingPaperback
Pages72
PlaceNew York, N.Y
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780822215530
ISBN-100822215535
LCCN98104348
LCCPS3558.A7349 S6 1997
DCC812/.54

Smash is a comedy play written by Jeffrey Hatcher and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York, N.Y (1997).

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