Roulette
by Paul Weitz

Name: Roulette
Brand: Paul Weitz
SKU: 9780822220084
Rating: 3 (4 reviews)

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

90 minsUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers feel that the play lacks originality, comparing it unfavorably to the works of Durang and Guare. Many believe it doesn't introduce anything fresh to the stage and falls short of expectations.

Lacks originalityFeels like a pale copy

Synopsis

THE STORY: Dysfunction and black comedy reign in suburbia when Jon, an affable businessman and father, descends to his kitchen one morning for coffee.

He pauses from his morning paper, carefully removes a revolver from his briefcase, loads one bull

ThemesBlack humor Dysfunctional families Dysfunctional families--Fiction PS3573.E4314 A79 2004

Press Reviews

"Every now and then a cliché sheds its skin in American comedy to reveal something raw and unsettling. Cultural anthropologists and savvy heatergoers should know that this molting process is now occurring at the John Houseman Theater, where a sharp-tongued, broken-hearted and seriously funny new play called ROULETTE opened last night."
— The New York Times