A Playwright's Christmas Carol

Posted by Coral Andrews Jan 7, 2007

And the Slurs ! Oh the Slurs !

" The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans, and one is not."

" American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half dead faculties. "

" I have a fine sense of the ridiculous but no sense of humour … "

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas My Casting Choice Would be....

Edward Albee – Ebenezer Scrooge

Samuel Beckett – Marley’s Ghost

Thornton Wilder – Ghost of Christmas Past

Harold Pinter – Ghost of Christmas Present

Wallace Shawn – Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

Wendy Wasserstein – Mrs Dilber

Anton Chekhov – Bob Cratchit

Paula Vogel – Mrs. Cratchit

David Mamet - Fred

Tiny Tim – Joe Orton (well… he was in the same sarcastic mind set … )

(Honorable mention for Ghost of Christmas Past –Tennessee Williams who also despised critics)

****Twelve Pulitzer Prizes , Eleven Pundits Piping, Ten Pairs of Manolo Blahniks, Nine Viles of Vicodin, Eight Fat Boy Slim Jigs, S-S-S-S-S-S- even Cartons of Milk, Six Dirty Martinis, Five Effing Goolllllllllld Claims, Four Pints of Duff Beer, Three Vats of Mead, Two Highballs of Jack Daniels, and the Last Round of Glenmorangie Single Malts for Albee, O'Toole, Leary, Walken , Falstaff and (Barney Gumble has passed out), Stewie, and House ( continuing Rude Off- Victory is Miranda's! ) and Towelie getting higher on Vicodin at The Really Sexy Party as Calamity Jane (now back in the tree) watches George W. get dumped on by The Partridge. ***

And as Mrs Dilber said - "A Merry Christmas if it ain't out of keeping with the situation."

A Christmas Coral