Three Plays (Kaufman - paperback)

Author: Kaufman,  Hart

ISBN: 9780802150646

Binding: paperback

Section: Drama-Plays

"Once in a Lifetime" is a highly charged satire about three small-time vaudevillians who set out for Hollywood. There, their wild luck, the incompetence of the producers, and the haywire atmosphere of the burgeoning film industry conspire to their great success. "You Can’t Take It With You" is the tale of a zany but lovable family of hobby-horse enthusiasts. They live in delightfully comic eccentricity until Alice brings home her straitlaced Wall Street boyfriend. Finally, "The Man Who Came to Dinner" portrays an eminent lecturer who unwillingly accepts a dinner invitation in a small Ohio town, slips on the ice outside his hosts’ home, and is forced immediately to their sickbed.