Jules Feiffer

Full Length, Black Comedy

Characters: 6 male, 2 female

Interior Set

Depressed New Yorker Alfred Chamberlain is engaged to perky, can-do Patsy Newquist. As their wedding day grows near, Alfred finds himself embroiled in an urban nightmare not the least of which is his fiance's family, the possiblity of marriage without Faith, muggings and a sniper's bullet.

"Jules Feiffer, a satirical sharpshooter with a deadly aim, stares balefully at the meaningless violence in American life, and opens fire on it in Little Murders. Devastatingly lethal in some of its coldly...

Subversive, funny, and effortlessly droll, Jules Feiffer s cartoons were all over New York in the 1960s and 70s featured in the "Village Voice," but also cut out and pinned to bulletin boards in offices and on refrigerators at home. Feiffer describes himself as lucking into the zeitgeist, and there s some truth to the sentiment; Feiffer s brand of satire reflected Americans ambivalence about the Vietnam War, changing social mores, and much more.
Feiffer s memoir, "Backing into Forward," like his cartoons, is sharply perceptive with a distinctive bite of mordant humor. Beginning with...