Bad Habits is play by Terrence McNally. Terrence McNally (born 3 November 1939) is an American Playwright, considered one of the leading American dramatists still writing today
The comedy is comprised of what originally were written as two one-act plays set in sanatoriums. Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδίαkomodia has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse especially in Television, Film, and A sanatorium (also sanitorium, sanitarium) is a medical facility for long-term illness typically Tuberculosis. In Dunelawn, a doctor allows his patients to indulge in all their bad habits as means of finding happiness. In Ravenswood, a serum is used to provide a cure.
Under the auspices of the Manhattan Theatre Club, the play premiered on February 4, 1974 at the off-Broadway Astor Place Theatre, where it ran for 96 performances. An auspice ( Latin: auspicium from auspex, literally "one who looks at birds" is a type of Omen already familiar The Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC is a theater club in Manhattan, New York. Events 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City. The Astor Place Theatre is an Off-Broadway house located at 434 Lafayette Street in the East Village section of Manhattan. The Robert Drivas-directed cast included F. Murray Abraham, Paul Benedict, and Doris Roberts. Robert Drivas ( November 21, 1938 - June 29, 1986) was an American Actor and Theatre director. Fahrid Murray Al-Ahmad Abraham ( Arabic: ﻱﻴﺵ ﺞﺜﺙ ﻙﻘﭪ ﭐﭖﺏ (born October 24 1939) is an Academy Award -winning American Paul Benedict (born September 17, 1938) is an American Character actor who has made several appearances in television and movies from the Doris May Roberts (born November 4, 1930) Her father deserted the family when Roberts was a child and her mother raised Doris with the help of her Russian
On May 5, the production moved uptown to the Booth Theatre, where it ran for 177 performances. Events 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins 1215 - Rebel Barons renounce their allegiance to King John The Booth Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 222 West 45th Street ( George Abbott Way) in midtown- Manhattan, New York City The cast was joined by Cynthia Harris. Cynthia Harris (b August 9 1934, New York City)is an American film and television actress
Bad Habits won the Obie Award as Distinguished Play for the 1973-1974 season. The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards bestowed by The Village Voice newspaper to Off-Broadway Theater
summary
A day in a rehab centre that deals with various "bad habits". The three patients that are introduced through the dialogue are an alcoholic, a drag queen and a perverted sadistic deluded man. Doctor Toynbee the man in charge of the centre is described throughout as a great man, a saint, revered by everyone in his presence. The doctor has developed a “serum” that is meant to help get rid of his patience’s flaws and worries. However, it lasts momentarily and the effects don’t seem to eliminate any amount of the patients’ previous bad habits as a sign of gradual elimination of their bad habits. The play is over the course of a sunny afternoon at the centre. Bruno a worker who helps out Ruth Benson and Becky Hedges, the nurses, and tends to the garden and hedges brings the patients out one by one, where the nurses are giving patients serum, some sun and some fresh air. As he goes back and forth he “leers” at Hedges, attempting to seduce her. As they wait for Bruno to bring along the next patient, we learn about the two nurses, their own bad habits, past lives, regrets and their striving for reformation. We learn of the trigger for their quest, men, at least in Ruth Benson’s case one man, Hugh Gumbs.
External links
- Lortel Archives listing
- Bad Habits at the Internet Broadway Database
- New York Times review from March 1990
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