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Softcover ISBN 0-06-092071-8 Good condition
This play is Wagner's latest starring vehicle for Lily Tomlin, and it is
a wonderfully comic and painful dose of truth direct to the heart. In
this satire, a form all too lacking in American theater, Trudy the bag
lady, Wagner's central character, tries to explain modern American
material society to an alien (i.e., interstellar) committee. In the
first act a variety of types are seen suffering in their lives. The more
full of anxiety and terror they are, the funnier and more disturbing
the play is. The focus of the second act, tied to the people of the
first act, is a group of women who live through the social fads of the
1970s and 1980s women trying to make something real enter their lives,
but who live desperate and superficial existences. Yet the play ends
with a hymn to the creative spirit. The text is lavishly illustrated
with performance pictures. Required reading.
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