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Monkey Monkey Bottle of Beer, How Many Monkeys Have We Here? (Broadway Theatre Archive)
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Product Details
- Starring: Deloris Gaskins, Peggy Kirkpatrick, Marc Jefferson, Helene Friedman, Rosemary De Angelis
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Peter Levin, Harold Scott (II)
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- EAN: 9780769727158
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- Format: Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 0769727158
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- Label: Kultur Video
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- Manufacturer: Kultur Video
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Kultur Video
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- Release Date: 2003-06-10
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- Studio: Kultur Video
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1974-05-22
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- Title: Monkey Monkey Bottle of Beer, How Many Monkeys Have We Here? (Broadway Theatre Archive)
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- UPC: 032031271531
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: The title for this play is taken from a little known nursery rhyme, which involves a game between mother and child. The drama opens in the elegant reception room of a clinic where five women await a first reunion with their children from who they have been separated for two months. As the scene proceeds, their discomfort escalates; the tension, now palpable, suggest there are more complicated issues at play. It seems the children have been participants in an unusual experiment - never fully revealed. The women continue to wait...collective pawns in a situation over which they have no control. Their personal reactions to the stress reveal much about their characters. By Marsha Sheiness.
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Customer Reviews
Who's Insane?
I can't remember if I saw this play or read it back in my high school years but have wanted to see thie release for some time. I cannot for the life of me tell you what this play was about other than showing the dramatic acting of some pretty talented people. The ending made no sense to me as I guess I was waiting for something to be resolved. Maybe it's the viewer who is the real experience they speak of??? Having just watched the movie, I don't think one bottle of beer will be quite enough.
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REWARDING DRAMA
Strange story, part of the Broadway Theater Archive Series, that brings an other-worldly atmosphere to the sterile and coldish setting of a waiting room in a city hospital, where five women have assembled to retrieve their children from a lengthy experimental procedure. The two-act play, written by Marsha Sheiness, and first produced by The Cincinnatti Playhouse In The Park in 1975, is a low-key drama with mounting tension and striking development, made almost surreal by what seems a monster lurking behind a closet door. Act Two delivers a quietly powerful punch, as if dazed and relieved by hallucinatory delirium after a slam to the head. A most rewarding and unusual play in an excellent production by the PBS 'Theater In America' series. The bizarre title is in reference to a children's rhyme.
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