"The Island. A Male Chauvinist Comedy"
Title | "The Island. A Male Chauvinist Comedy" |
Year for Search | 1980 |
Authors | Saunders, James(1925-2004) |
Secondary Title | Bye Bye Blues and Other Plays |
Pagination | 23-78 |
Date Published | 1980 |
Publisher | Amber Lane Press |
Place Published | Ambergate, Derby, Eng. |
Keywords | English author, Male author |
Annotation | Satire. Men seemed to have died out and women reproduce without them. Three young sisters have been placed on an idyllic isolated island to live a new and better life. They long for something they can't identify, and then some men show up. |
Info Notes | Play written for and first performed by the Questors Theatre, Ealing, England in June 1975. The first professional performance was by the Richmond Fringe at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, England January 21, 1977. |
Author Note | (1925-2004) |
Full Text | 1980 Saunders, James (1925-2004). “The Island. A Male Chauvinist Comedy.” In his Bye Bye Blues and Other Plays (Ambergate, Derby, Eng.: Amber Lane Press, 1980), 23-78. Play written for and first performed by the Questors Theatre, Ealing, England in June 1975. The first professional performance was by the Richmond Fringe at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, England January 21, 1977. Satire. Men seemed to have died out and women reproduce without them. Three young sisters have been placed on an idyllic isolated island to live a new and better life. They long for something they can’t identify, and then some men show up. |