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Lemonade and The Autograph Hound

其他書名	Two Plays
出版	Dramatists Play Service, 1969
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MX3rnwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The Autograph Hound: A sharply humorous and inventive play which takes a revealing look at a wife who is an obsessive celebrity-chaser who finds meaning in her life through collecting autographs, a resentful husband who takes serious action against her compulsion, and their young adult daughter who is caught in-between them. As the Associated Press describes "The Autograph Hound is ... so funny and unphony that an old hand playwright could be proud of it. The play ... is funny in a comfortable way. It bases its humor on human and domestic foibles. The playwright's views seem to be that some faults are completely ridiculous and in no way admitting of praise and yet, reassuringly, they spring from an unquenchable human spirit to be celebrated rather than censured. The wife in the three-character play is a full-blown eccentric who stands for hours outside every possible celebrity gathering place to get autographs. One night when she's out, standing in the snow, her husband tears up the treasured collection housed in three living room filing cabinets, bests her in a strangling contest when she gets home, sends their daughter out to find her own apartment, and declares a turning point. But what way will they turn? She's the one, after all, with the 'thrill of the chase' as she expresses it. They find their togetherness - he joins her hobby."