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Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, NY, USA >>>

2009

Performance Thanatology and The Missoula Oblongata

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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The Missoula Oblongata presents their fourth full-scale touring production, The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen. As always, the company has created their own homemade lighting system, run from the stage by the performers, as well as an interactive set made of junk, and an original score played live by the composers-turned-actors. The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen takes place just after the Treaty of Versailles. A veteran who is genetically predisposed to cowardice searches for his brother from whom he's received a mysterious letter. When the veteran comes upon the town from whence the letter came, he finds that his brother (and the rest of the town) have been caught in a dance mania—a hysterical mass tarantism. With no one else around, the veteran befriends a spider—likely the one who is responsible for the tarantism, and together, they go up against the town doctor who believes that breakfast (and everything ordinary, for that matter) is beneath love.
- nytheatre.com