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Overview

Rudy Smith, son of Massachusetts cop re-invents himself as "Rudyard Smyth" and becomes a show-biz animal agent ("the Ben-Hur Stables!") to impress his newly-found fiancee, a wealthy heiress who is in reality Ziegfeld star Anna Held's maid. This satirical look at "The American Dream" is an early play by the author of House of Blue Leaves and Landscape of the Body.

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Cautions

  • Caution Mild Adult Mild Adult Themes

Details

  • Genre: Farce
  • Cast Attributes: Room for Extras

Authors

John Guare

John Guare's plays include Lydie Breeze; Bosoms and Neglect; The House of Blue Leaves, which won an Obie and NY Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best American Play of 1970-71 and four Tonys in its 1986 Lincoln Center revival; and Six Degrees of Separation, which received th ...
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