Sammy’s Follies: A Criminal Comedy

Author(s): Eugene Lion
Four drinks, one top banana, nine low comics, one ex-stripper and three lousy musicians revisit defining crimes of the twentieth century, indicting their audiences and themselves with a runaway burlesque show of satire and songs, liquor and laughter, comedy and catastrophe.
Format: Black comedy
Cast Size:9M/1F/3 musicians

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Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
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Second Scene Editions, 2007
Also published in A Terrible Truth: Anthology of Holocaust Drama, v. 1, compiled by Irene N. Watts, Playwrights Canada Press.

Experience(s) Chronicled: Nazi War Crimes and Judgement

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