The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Wagner, Jane

ISBN 10: 0060156732 / ISBN 13: 9780060156732

Published by Harper and Row; New York, 1986

About this Item

1986. 3rd ptg. Fine book in fine dust jacket. HB. Many photographs. The Broadway smash starring Lily Tomlin. 223 pp. Sm 4to. [Uu].

Seller Inventory # 527

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
• Publisher: Harper and Row; New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060156732
• ISBN 13: 9780060156732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The text of the Broadway play, captures the last twenty years of American culture

Reviews

This play is Wagner's latest starring vehicle for Lily Tomlin, and it is a wonderfully comic and painful dose of truth direct to the heart. In this satire, a form all too lacking in American theater, Trudy the bag lady, Wagner's central character, tries to explain modern American material society to an alien (i.e., interstellar) committee. In the first act a variety of types are seen suffering in their lives. The more full of anxiety and terror they are, the funnier and more disturbing the play is. The focus of the second act, tied to the people of the first act, is a group of women who live through the social fads of the 1970s and 1980swomen trying to make something real enter their lives, but who live desperate and superficial existences. Yet the play ends with a hymn to the creative spirit. The text is lavishly illustrated with performance pictures. Required reading. Thomas E. Luddy, English Dept., Salem State Coll., Mass.
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