Robert M. (shotokanchef) reviewed You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running. on + 813 more book reviews
This is really four short one-act plays that share a loosely threaded theme: the changing morals in entertainment in the 1960s. The title is only a one-liner from the first of them, The Shock of Recognition. A playwright writes a flash nude scene into his play to the dismay of his producer. Eventually they both have ambivalent feelings about it. The second, The Footsteps of Doves, is about a middle-aged couple attempting to buy a new mattress: one bed or two. (You get the message.) In number three, Ill Be Home For Christmas, mom wants pop to discuss various sexual information with their adolescent son and daughter. Their own banter about it is rather blunt. In number four, Im Herbert, an elderly couple share senior moments. Both appear to be quite senile as they constantly confuse each others name with that of former spouses; they each have had several. The first was cute; the others just so-so.
