Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The complete scripts to two of Larry Gelbart's most popular and powerful political satires. Review of Mastergate If George Orwell were a gag writer he could have written Mastergate. Larry Gelbart's scathingly funny takeoff on the Iran-Contra hearings is a spiky cactus flower in the desert of American political theatre. Jack Kroll Newsweek . Review of Power Failure There is in his broad etching all the ethical outrage of an Arthur Miller kvetching. And oh so much more fun Carolyn Clay The Boston Phoenix .
Synopsis
(Applause Books). The complete scripts to two of Larry Gelbart's most popular and powerful political satires.
Review of Mastergate: "If George Orwell were a gag writer, he could have written Mastergate. Larry Gelbart's
scathingly funny takeoff on the Iran-Contra hearings is a spiky cactus flower in the desert of American political
theatre." Jack Kroll, Newsweek . Review of Power Failure: "There is in his broad etching all the ethical
outrage of an Arthur Miller kvetching. And, oh, so much more fun " Carolyn Clay, The Boston Phoenix .