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Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land: Two Plays
Dirty Linen and NewFoundLand Two Plays Author:Tom Stoppard Tom Stoppard's latest hilarious farce took London by storm at the very moment when Washington was swept by a series of Congressional "sex scandals." The play, scheduled for an early opening in Washington and New York, is a comedy about a Parliamentary investigation of the sexual indiscretions of a number of M.P.s with the staggerin... more »gly voluptuous Maddie Gotobed. But, in the words of Mel Gussow in The New York Times, "when it comes to 'Dirty Linen', there are no national boundaries. It is a tidal basin of laughter. Tom Stoppard's devilish new comedy casts a sardonic but winking eye at the sexual peccadilloes of a nation's leaders. The play is about the British Parliament, but it sounds as if Stoppard had been avidly digesting the American newspapers and rushed to his typewriter."« less