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Welcome to the Monkey House
Large Mixed Cast
Christopher Sergel from Kurt Vonnegut Jr Price: $8.25
Its theatrical excitement comes from the brilliant
words and the dazzling display of original ideas
Vonnegut begins with a moving episode about right now in which a young man searches for companionship and identity through participation in amateur theatricals, appropriately entitled Who Am I This Time?
An edged satire of the future concludes the first act
The final scene, entirely realistic and modern, gets to the heart of what really concerns young people as a music teacher fights to salvage a rebellious young man, explaining to him how one might bring beauty into the world
“Love yourself,” the teacher tells him, “and make your instrument sing about it”
“[Vonnegut is] ... a zany but moral mad scientist at the controls of a literary time machine. He is George Orwell, Dr Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer
Though Vonnegut is knocking a misplaced sense of values
by showing the horrifying results, he’s doing it with an
irreverent chuckle” ~ The Times
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