Synopsis
Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?
Published by Dramatists Play Service
3 Male 3 Female
In the course of his adventures he befriends a destitute old actor, acquires an over-sized sheep dog (his best friend) and finds love with a beautiful music student (whom he meets in the ladies' room at Bloomingdale's)
But as Tommy moves from scene to scene, his bright red shopping bag at the ready for pilfering and his agile wit poised to hoodwink every- one in sight, we also glimpse the root causes of his alienation - his ailing, complaining mother back home
And an unhappily married brother; a former girlfriend who has settled for a suffocating domesticity; and a venturing forth which has brought more rejection than acceptance
In the end, betrayed yet again, but still buoyantly defiant, Tommy devises his final rip-off-a bomb to blow him, and at least some small portion of a world he cannot accept, into oblivion
An Off-Broadway success, selected by Time magazine as one of the ten best plays of the year, this biting, hilarious, touching and totally original work captures the essence of the "now generation," from flower children to violent revolutionaries
" a boisterously funny, rueful, sentimental, raunchy and outrageous workIt is also consistently entertaining" - NY Daily News
" clever and very funny Mr. McNally is a nimble writer for the stage, with a God-given knack for telling scenes and sharp, immediate characterizations " - The New Yorker