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Philip Barry
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Shadowed Cocktails
An important and prolific playwright, Philip Barry wrote hit plays such as The Philadelphia Story and Holiday. However, he has been largely forgotten and no book-length analysis of his work has appeared in more than forty years. With this book, Donald R. Anderson rescues the playwright from obscurity. Although Barry’s successes were with comedies of manners, he also wrote dramatic and experimental works. Anderson analyzes all of Barry’s plays (twenty-one in total) and questions the traditional characterization of the American playwright’s work. He begins with Barry’s early plays concerning intergenerational tensions and lessons learned from the Great War. Subsequent chapters explore ...
Hotel Universe
The plot consists of scene after ponderous scene of dredged up recollections of crucial episodes in the unhappy lives of the assembled guests at a house in the South of France modeled on the villa of real-life lost generation hosts, Sara and Gerald Murphy. All are American expatriates, including hostess Ann Field ..., who has been putting her own life on hold for three years to be with her ailing father Stephen ... The memories, some in the form of role playing, are prompted by the suicide of a young boy and the climax brings the inevitable "redemption" of one of the suicidally inclined member of this house party. --www.curtainup.com.
Holiday
"Freespirited Johnny Case finds himself engaged to one girl but preferring the other. The wealthy Seton sisters are his intended, socially proper Julia, and Linda, non-conforming, boyish and fresh. Expecting his future son-in-law to tow the family line, patriarch Edward Seton realizes that Johnny cannot, and having met and fallen for Linda, she and Johnny, two kindred souls, take their life-as-a-holiday in the company of each other."--Publisher's website.
The Incredibly Boring Monotonous Family
A Dahl-esque fantasy adventure for children in which the very boring Monotonous family discovers a taste for excitement through the workings of a magic key.Ann and Stan Monotonous are extremely brainy nine-year-old twins. However, their family life is painfully dull - dull routines, stultifying hobbies - even their meals are agonisingly awful, as they are all rigidly based on the most basic of food pyramids. Their only excitement in life is a recording of a bland voice reciting the numbers of pi which they listen to in the car. Then one day Ann Monotonous finds a magic key. The key comes with a special message and Ann suddenly, and literally, finds exciting new doors opening for the Monotonous family. Then the unthinkable happens - the Monotonous family becomes entirely too exciting. Now it's up to Ann to save her family... from themselves.
The Tools
The authors present a psychological model based on the proven methods of Hollywood's greatest psychotherapists.
