Night Of The Pterodactyls
Julian Wiles
Pterodactyls
by Nicky Silver
Synopsis
THE STORY: An absurdist black comedy about the demise of the Duncan family, and, by extension, the species.
Emma Duncan, a hypochondriac with memory problems, and her orphaned fiancé, Tommy, confront her mother, Grace, with the news of their intend
Press Reviews
"…PTERODACTYLS struck me as the flip-side of The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder's antic celebration of mankind's ability to muddle through."
— The New York Times
"There are times—not all that many, admittedly—when a critic wishes he had never used the word 'brilliant' before, so he could offer it fresh minded and glittering to something new. And different…"
— New York Post
"Clever is the word for PTERODACTYLS…clever, sharp, witty—it's a play that takes aim at the main-streamed, moneyed, conventional American family and buries it under one satiric jibe after another."
— TheaterWeek
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Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1994
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822213758
ISBN-10 0822213753
LCCN 94164187
LCC PS3569.I4712 P77 1994
DCC 812/.54
Pterodactyls is a American comedy play written by Nicky Silver and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1994).
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