Real American Dinner Party & Other Short Plays

By Jen Silverman

Book Overview

A dynamic collection of five absurdist hilarious provocative plays exploring everything from power to loneliness to menstruating hippos. The collection contains:

Real American Dinner Party - Sometimes you lose your keys sometimes you lose your temper and sometimes you lose the most unexpected of things. A particularly tense dinner party can change everything in the blink of an eye... (2f 2m)

Hippos of the Eastern Enclosure - On Thanksgiving a nervous male zookeeper is overwhelmed by three female hippos who all get their periods. While the zookeeper his girlfriend and his co-worker decide who is on clean-up the hippos interrogate the nature of ambition. (5f 1m)

The Visitations - Dana has been alone in her home for a bit too long. Either she is losing it or she is having an increasingly intimate relationship with a ghost. (1f)

Ubu Anew (A Play for Strange People) - A shortened and extremely loose adaptation of Ubu Roi featuring Pixy Stix and Hillary Clinton. (2f 4m)

Your Mother in the Night Sky - Your mother leaves a voicemail the strangest voicemail you've ever received. (1f)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0573709394
• ISBN13: 9780573709395
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Concord Theatricals
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"