Synopsis
Scuba Duba
Published by Dramatists Play Service
7 Male 4 Female
His next-door neighbor is a bikini-clad American girl, who drops in chiefly to tell him pointless stories. She is also willing to comfort him, but his main interest is dramatizing himself as interchangeably forgiving and vengeful
The other visitors include a thief and a policeman who, being French, patriotically takes the French thief's side against him
The fatuous psychiatrist shows up, as does an impossible American who thinks he understands other races. The wife and her two black friends arrive, one the skin-diver who puts on a bogusly genial kind of minstrel act, the other a romantic type who makes love poetically
They are a well-assorted and, on the whole, an amusing set of people" - In Richard Watts Jr
And, in fact, perhaps the most singular, hilarious and ingratiating group of characters to be encountered on the American stage since You Can't Take It With You made history of a similar kind in its own time
"... side-splitting ... a genuine original, a zany charade with a mindlessness of its own..." - NY Times
"... a farce comedy loaded with improbabilities, pointless stories, outrageous non-sequiturs, incredible and sinful behavior--and a million laughs" - NY Daily News