Bad Habits

Bad Habits

Bad Habits

Bad Habits

Bad Habits

Overview

An Obie-winning off-Broadway hit that successfully transferred to Broadway, this pair of brilliantly satirical plays offers a biting and hilarious look at events in two singular sanitariums.

The first play, Dunelawn, takes place in an expensive retreat for the unhappily married, where the director, Dr. Pepper, dispenses a definitely unique sort of marital guidance. His theory includes complete indulgence in such “bad habits” as smoking, drinking and sexual promiscuity – which seem to work wonders for his patients, whose wacky case histories are each examined in hilarious detail.

In the second play, Ravenswood, the approach is quite the opposite. Here the saintly Dr. Toynbee injects his straitjacketed charges with tranquilizing drugs to calm such urges – but again, the catalogue of aberrations revealed in his patients is subjected to close, and enormously funny, scrutiny. Both plays can be performed by the same cast, as each calls for 6 men and 2 women.

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Cautions

  • Caution Alcohol Alcohol
  • Caution Mild Adult Mild Adult Themes
  • Caution Smoking Smoking

Details

  • Genre: Farce
  • Time Period: 1970s
  • Target Audience: Adult

Authors

Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally (1938-2020) was the recipient of the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, the 2019 Dramatist Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2019 Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ...

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