Links are automatically generated the play may not be available. Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information.Ĭlick on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices.Ī Barnes and ! Royalty/cost information prone to change. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook’s next door to each other, with a laundress’s next door to that That was the pudding In half a minute Mrs. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where 'little things' sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the handicapped, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time which they, like their more fortunate brothers, are allotted on this earth. Philip has a SA in drama from the University of. Smith has the mind of a five-year-old, but imagines that he is able to read and comprehend the weighty books which he lugs about Arnold, the ringleader of the group, is a hyperactive, compulsive chatterer, who suffers from deep-seated insecurities and a persecution complex while Barry, a brilliant schizophrenic who is devastated by the unfeeling rejection of his brutal father, fantasizes that he is a golf pro. Please unwrap your candy or cough drops before the play begins. Norman, who works in a doughnut shop and is unable to resist the lure of the sweet pastries, takes great pride in the huge bundle of keys which dangles from his waist Lucien P. The place is a communal residence in a New England city, where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly 'burned out' young social worker named Jack.

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