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KENNETH CAMERON
Nationality: USAemail: n/a Website: n/a
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Member of the Dramatists Guild of America
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Hundred And First, The Papp Physician For FoolsHundred And First, The
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Disgruntled by the fact that his shabby, bickering family falls just short of inclusion as one of the "Hundred Neediest Cases," Francis Stockstill decides to turn to shop-lifting, in the hope that he can escape to a nice, comfortable jail. But the judge, impressed that the Stockstills destitution rates thirty Peer Group Points, eagerly sets him free. Stockstill, taking advantage of his immunity from arrest, embarks on an epic stealing spree. However he commits the unpardonable error of pilfering from a blind news dealer who just happens to be Neediest Case number one hundred! In seeking to escape the judge's indignation Stockstill is felled by a policeman's bullet. But his end is not in vain, for his violent demise jumps his family up the Destitution Curve for a total of fifty-seven Peer Group Pints, and a secure place high on the Suffering analysis chart.
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Black Comedy One act
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Top of PagePapp
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as Edith Oliver, writing in The New Yorker, describes: "The lines are filled with puns-outrageous and lightly blasphemous-and the theme is destruction. The play is set in the private library of the Pope at the Vatican-or, to quote the dramatist, 'of Papp at the Vatican.' The room is overgrown with vegetation and is thick with grime; the books are inches deep in dust, and so is a statue of Buddha on one of the bookshelves. There are jungle noises outside, and organ music within. The time is some future Dark ages. . .Something serious and human and touching does come through all the verbal rigmarole-even a story. an extraterritorial Demolition Man named Mak, a plastic helmet on his head and a pack of explosives on his back, comes to blow up the place. Papp detains him by quoting garbled proverbs and telling him garbled stories from Scripture, trading a story for a 'boom,' and then Mak, who can read, picks up a Bible and starts to correct Papp who cannot. all ends with a public book burning and an explosion, and w
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Comedy/Drama Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PagePhysician For Fools
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Oldham 1962
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