

Talk Radio
Eric Bogosian
Awards & Recognition
Finalist! 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Comedy Characters: 7 male 2 female plus offstage voices
Scenery: Interior
Newly revised!
Barry Champlain Cleveland's controversial radio host is on the air doing what he does best: insulting the pathetic souls who call in the middle of the night to sound off.
Tomorrow Barry's show is going into national syndication and his producer is afraid that Barry will say something that will offend the sponsors.
This of course makes Barry even more outrageous.
Funny and moving off beat outrage
"A compelling work that draws you straight into the heart of its fringe world. It makes the call in show a metaphor for America's lost souls."
— New York Newsday
"Imagine Lenny Bruce at the height of his notoriety becoming a popular talk show host and you may begin to have an idea of the whiplash intensity and black, hard edged cynicism of Talk Radio."
— The New York Times
"Thirty years after its New York premiere, Eric Bogosian’s incendiary examination of truth in a world of uninformed, unscrupulous pseudo-celebrities has lost none of its edge."
— The Stage
"On Talk Radio truth is a fiction, and the best fictions are the most shocking...It's a sad, immoral world, but we lap it up."
— What's On Stage
Talk Radio is a American comedy play written by Eric Bogosian from Tad Savinar and published by Samuel French in New York (2010).
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Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)
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