A Smell of Burning: A Comedy of Menace
| Title | A Smell of Burning: A Comedy of Menace |
| Year for Search | 1960 |
| Authors | Campton, David(1924-2006) |
| Date Published | 1960 |
| Publisher | Samuel French |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Dystopia. With a revolt taking place offstage, a couple at breakfast listen to a very off stage radio broadcast until the radio goes off the air, talk at cross purposes, and sit quietly as a town official murders a neighbor and then the wife. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his A Smell of Burning and Then . . . Two Plays (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1969), 3-20. |
| Info Notes | Recordings of sound effects for machine gun fire and explosions are listed as available for sale to groups putting on the play. Play first performed in London by the Studio Theatre Company November 14, 1957 as part of four plays with the collective title A Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace. |
| Author Note | (1924-2006) |
| Full Text | 1960 Campton, David (1924-2006). A Smell of Burning: A Comedy of Menace. London: Samuel French. Rpt. in his A Smell of Burning and Then . . . Two Plays (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1969), 3-20. Recordings of sound effects for machine gun fire and explosions are listed as available for sale to groups putting on the play. Play first performed in London by the Studio Theatre Company November 14, 1957, as part of four plays with the collective title A Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace. Dystopia. With a revolt taking place offstage, a couple at breakfast listen to a very off stage radio broadcast until the radio goes off the air, talk at cross purposes, and sit quietly as a town official murders a neighbor and then the wife. |
