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Smoke and Mirrors (Goodrich)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 4m

Joseph Goodrich

"In Smoke and Mirrors, playwright Joseph Goodrich conjures up a wickedly amusing portrait of a stultifying but nerve-racking workplace." – Backstage.com

Smoke and Mirrors (Goodrich)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 4m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
Set in the break room of a quasi-governmental organization, Smoke and Mirrors follows Anita and a handful of her co-workers through the course of a seemingly normal day, complete with bad cafeteria food, inept bosses, inappropriate e-mails and blood-stained lab-coats. Smoke and Mirrors mingles the comic with the nightmarish, creating a world composed of patriotism and cupcakes, of paranoia and air freshener---a world uncomfortably close to our own.
History

Smoke and Mirrors was first produced at the Flea Theater, NYC, in the spring of 2007.

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Performing Groups
MOSES
ANITA
TERRY
TAMMIE
CHAD
DREW
ESTELLE
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting The play is set in the breakroom of a quasi-governmental organization.
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Strong Language
    • Smoking

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REVIEWS

"In Smoke and Mirrors, playwright Joseph Goodrich conjures up a wickedly amusing portrait of a stultifying but nerve-racking workplace. –Backstage.com"If Kafka scripted an episode of The Office, it might resemble Joseph Goodrich’s bizarre and often intriguing Smoke and Mirrors, set in the smoking room of a nebulous American corporation." – Time Out New York

"In Smoke and Mirrors, playwright Joseph Goodrich conjures up a wickedly amusing portrait of a stultifying but nerve-racking workplace." – Backstage.com

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  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

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Joseph Goodrich

Joseph Goodrich
Joseph Goodrich is an author and dramatist whose plays have been produced across the United States and are published by Samuel French, Playscripts, the Padua Hills Press and Applause Books. His adaptation of Ellery Queen’s Calamity Town was named Best New Script at the 2016 C ...
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