Overview

""Comedy nirvana . . . satisfyingly mean and funny.""?The New York Post Nicky Silver, that ""strange progeny of a coupling between Neil Simon and Edward Albee"" (The New York Times), has cornered the market on deliciously savage family comedies. This intimate and frightening examination of how we cope with loneliness and disappointment delighted audiences on Broadway, earning a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Play. Nicky Silver's plays include Pterodactyls (Oppenheimer Award, Kesselring Award, Drama Desk nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination), The Eros Trilogy, The Food Chain (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Fat Men in Skirts, Fit to Be Tied, The Maiden's Prayer, Free Will and Wanton Lust (Helen Hayes Award), My Marriage to Ernest Borgnine, The Altruists, and Raised in Captivity (Drama Desk nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination).

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Reviews

'pleasingly shocking... the best comedy to hit the London stage this year' * The Times * 'horribly amusing... revels in the writhing spectacle of family as vipers' nest... the spikiest show in town' * Telegraph * 'scabrously funny in a wildly inappropriate, oh-my-god-did-she-really-say-that type way... if you loved Clybourne Park, you'll probably like this' * Time Out * 'an American Joe Orton who specialises in comic outrageousness' * Guardian * 'Fast-quipping, point-scoring humor... a shade of existential emptiness and anger hangs over even the jolliest exchange in this play' * New York Times *

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Nicky Silver's plays include Pterodactyls (Oppenheimer Award, Kesselring Award, Drama Desk nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination), The Eros Trilogy, The Food Chain (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Fat Men in Skirts, Fit to Be Tied, The Maiden's Prayer, Free Will and Wanton Lust (Helen Hayes Award), My Marriage to Ernest Borgnine, The Altruists and Raised in Captivity (Drama Desk nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination).

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