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Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #863443 in Books
- Published on: 2008-09-01
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 136 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.com
From Spalding Gray to Anna Deavere Smith, monologists have become a real power in contemporary theater. Few have had the savage impact of Eric Bogosian, who continues to get inside working- (and formerly working-) class Joes with attitude in his 1990 Monologue of 12 Characters. Among the vivid rebels he incarnates are an artist who resolves to keep his art inside his head to prevent "the system" from commercializing it and an entire group of blue-collar guys whose wedding-eve party for a buddy turns into a merry sleigh ride to hell. The virtuoso piece of Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll shows a high-powered executive who juggles business partners, enemies, spouse, mistress, and children on a cellular phone, showing each a distinct side of his twisted personality.
From Library Journal
Adding to his growing body of work which includes Drinking in America (Vintage: Random, 1987) and Talk Radio (Vintage: Random, 1988), Bogosian's one-man show pokes fun at the excesses and absurdities of a generation weaned on rock 'n' roll. From his portrayal of a rock star who glamorizes drugs while warning kids to "just say no" to his satirization of male bonding, Bogosian plays with the icons and myths of a myopic and self-indulgent society that overconsumes even as it weeps for the less fortunate. The author joins monologists Spalding Gray ( Sex and Death to the Age 14 , LJ 6/15/86) and Lily Tomlin as part of a growing theatrical movement that blends social criticism with the one-person format. More acerbic and low-brow than either Gray or Tomlin, Bogosian brings to the theater a penetrating and often biting criticism of what he calls a "schizoid" culture.
- Gerald Large, California State Univ. Lib., Los Angeles
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Ingram
In Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Bogosian uses his brilliantly conceived cast of characters to comment hilariously yet subtly on the larger issues that define our time: the relations between men and women; man's vision of the world and future; and the self-delusion, anxiety, and hatred endemic to modernity.
