Synopsis

The Last Straw

$13

Charles Dizenzo

Published by Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 0 Female

"A young man answers a newspaper advertisement offering a happier life. A 'doctor' alone in a shabby, empty office and a boy full of failure and malaise have a confrontation that is short, sweet and funny

The quack is prepared to cure anything, from homosexuality to boredom, and the patient is at the end of every tether he can find. First, the doctor seems nothing but a crook, hopefully out for a quick buck

But as the play proceeds, he reveals a certain madness in his method - it is eccentricity beyond the common call of duty. Mr Dizenzo has a delicate way with situations, and he can write some genuinely funny lines, here most of them coming from the logical illogicality of the slightly disturbed, mildly crazy" ~ The New York Times

Produced by New York's experimental American Place Theatre, this antic and perceptive comedy deals with the encounter between a zany "psychiatrist" and the uneasy young man who comes to him for help

" blows in and out like a gust of happy dust" ~ NY Post

" first class. The situations are funny and the lines hilarious" ~ Jersey Journal

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