Waiting for the Electrician, or Someone Like Him & Temporarily Humboldt County
Collection Description
This collection includes two short plays: WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN, OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM and TEMPORARILY HUMBOLDT COUNTY. WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN, OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM is a mad Kafkaesque journey that takes a confused tourist into a shadowy world of Byzantine fascists. TEMPORARILY HUMBOLDT COUNTY is a short history of European expansion and Native American displacement.
Plays in This Collection
- Reviews
- About the Author(s)
- About the Book
- Special Notes
Press Quotes
“The Beatles of comedy.” —Library of Congress
“The Firesign Theatre is a comedy group that uses the recording studio at least as brilliantly as any rock group …” —Robert Christgau
“… [Firesign is] the funniest team in America today, combining elements of W C Fields, James Joyce, Lord Buckley, contemporary television and Thirties radio, scrambling it all up in a collective consciousness that defies description, and then spewing it out in a free-form half-hour epic presentation of sheer insanity … Their timing is dynamite, their dialog kaleidoscopic, and their satire is, so to speak, acidic. WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN … a masterpiece of paranoia.” —Ed Ward, Rolling Stone
Special Notes
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