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Taller Than a Dwarf

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  4w, 5m

Elaine May

"The discomforting sourpuss humor that Ms. May is known for."-N.Y. Times

"May [does] ... what she does best turn contemporary neuroses into the stuff of high pitched drawing room, or in this case bed room, farce." - Boston Globe

Taller Than a Dwarf

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    4w, 5m

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Matthew Broderick and Parker Posey starred on Broadway as Howard and Selma, just another urban, Jewish, almost generic white couple from Queens, until the mundane stresses of a leaky shower and a citation for littering overwhelm them and Howard takes to bed. His parents, mother-in-law and boss hysterically elevate his childish rebellion to Civil Disobedience worthy of Thoreau in this skewed comic version of an urban angst from veteran humorist Elaine May.
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    • Mild Adult Themes

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"The discomforting sourpuss humor that Ms. May is known for.-N.Y. Times

"May [does] ... what she does best turn contemporary neuroses into the stuff of high pitched drawing room, or in this case bed room, farce."" - Boston Globe

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