The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Double signed)

Jane Wagner (with Lily Tomlin)

ISBN 10: 0060156732 / ISBN 13: 9780060156732

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1986

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe is a one-woman stage show. The original Broadway production starred Lily Tomlin. It won the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, and was turned into a film in 1991. The show follows Tomlin as she performs various characters or personae, all while wearing simple black pants and a white blouse. The show appears disparate at first, but becomes unified under the sensibility of the opening "bag lady" persona as the performance progresses. The show is often praised or considered controversial for its feminist material, most notably the compressed history of the feminist movement offered in Act 2. For her stage performance, Tomlin won a Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics' Circle awards. This copy is fine in green cloth with gilt titles and designs on the spine and front cover. No marks or damage at all. The unclipped DJ is also excellent. It is inscribed by both Jane Wagner and Lily Tomlin on the half title page. . AB20. Seller Inventory # B814

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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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in ...
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Hardover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed
Edition: First Edition.