Children! Children!
by Jack Horrigan

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On New Year's Eve a fashionable couple depart for a party with a doctor and his wife, leaving their precocious children, 3 pre teen boys and a girl, in the care of a new baby sitter whose conscience requires her to announce that she recently recovered from a nervous breakdown.

The children proceed to torture the baby sitter, beginning with a story of how a previous baby sitter dropped dead right before their eyes of a heart attack, proceeding through sadistic turns, including a pitch at lovemaking by first the boy and then the girl, and ending with a tumble down the stairs.

On returning home, the sitter is not able to convince the parents that it all happened; they merely think her still mentally unstable.

Then we in turn see in the viciousness of the parents the source of the children's diabolism.

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"The tension is continuous."

— New York Post

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Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573606984
ISBN-10 0573606986

Children! Children! is a play written by Jack Horrigan and published by Samuel French .

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