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The Family of Mann

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 4m

Theresa Rebeck

"Taking a behind the scenes look at the making of a TV sitcom, playwright Theresa Rebeck doesn't adopt the Neil Simon approach. Attila the Hun is more like it. When she's funny, she's savagely funny. When she's serious, she draws blood." N.Y. News…

The Family of Mann

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A young writer learns that comedy can be a grim business when she gets a job working on a television sitcom. Her colleagues insist that the show is both decent and real while their world descends into a ferocious madness. The Family of Mann hilariously questions who and what are invited into homes when the television is turned on.

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"Taking a behind the scenes look at the making of a TV sitcom, playwright Theresa Rebeck doesn't adopt the Neil Simon approach. Attila the Hun is more like it. When she's funny, she's savagely funny. When she's serious, she draws blood." - N.Y. Newsday

"Everything rings fiercely, funnily, savagely true." - N.Y. Magazine

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Theresa Rebeck

Theresa Rebeck

Theresa Rebeck is a widely produced playwright throughout the United States and abroad. New York productions of her work include Dead Accounts at the Music Box Theatre; Seminar at the Golden Theatre; Mauritius at the Biltmore Theatre in a Manhattan Theater Club Production; Th ...

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