Synopsis
Bad Habits
$13
Published by Dramatists Play Service
6 Male 2 Female
His theory includes complete indulgence in such "bad habits" as smoking, drinking and sexual promiscuity - which seems 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
Winner of the Obie Award. First an Off-Broadway hit, and then successfully transferred to Broadway, this pair of brilliantly satirical plays offers a biting and hilarious study of events in two very singular sanitariums
"really funnygoes to prove that laughter is the best medicine" - NY Times
"Terrence McNally gets funnier and funnier. His Bad Habits is a twin bill and it's funny enough for two theatres" - NY Daily News