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2m / Dramatic Comedy / Unit set
It's 1965 and two comedians, "Steady Eddie" & "Doug the Mug," knock 'em dead every night in the Catskills. Punchlines and cheap shots fly -- on stage and off -- as Doug and Ed battle for the spotlight over a decade, pushing each other to the cusp of a new direction of stand up comedy. With their personal and professional lives uncovered at center stage, Eddie and Doug must find a way to laugh it off while staying at the top of their game. Sam Marks' The Joke takes a look at the friendship and the rivalry between two comic partners during the golden years of the Borscht Belt.
"A tasty two-hander by Sam Marks...A comedy team working the Catskills in the 1960s and '70s, getting few laughs while undergoing all the stresses of a doomed marriage...And just as in a marriage in which one half of the couple changes while the other stays the same, the relationship deteriorates. Allusions to a woman and to the historical context as the '60s give way to the '70s are tantalizing but not overdone; the focus stays on the two men.". - Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times
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Charles Pipkin
reviewed The Joke on February 16, 2012
The Joke
This is a good collection of short and full plays. Prior to getting this I had only read "The Baltimore Waltz" (included in the collection) and found myself laughing and feeling sad at the various scenes inside.
"What are Tuesdays Like?" gives outsiders a glimpse inside an AIDS treatment clinic and how patients could interact with each other during their stressful situation. "The Stand In" is rather humorous despite it's biting irony of what happens when a well-known celebrity hides his homosexuality. I especially liked "It's Our Town, Too" because of its modern take on the old high school stage stand-by of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town". Other contributors are Claire Chafee, Constance Congdon, Steven Dietz, Linda Eisenstein, the Five Lesbian Brothers, Eric Lane, Craig Lucas, Cherrie Moraga, Ron Nyswaner, Joe Pintauro, Edwin Sanchez, Will Scheffer, and Shay Youngblood.
Gay or straight, thespian or audience member, it doesn't matter. This is definitely worth picking up and reading.
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