One Neck by Todd Alcott


One Neck
Title : One Neck
Author :
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ISBN : -
Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 95
Publication : Published April 10, 2016

A play by Todd Alcott. A serial killer crashes a Long Island dinner party and hilarity ensues. A darkly funny, incisive look at violence in our culture and the chaos that dwells under the most civilized surfaces. The play, produced in the early '90s, received raves for its intensity and humor, and launched the career of Todd Alcott, who is now a successful Hollywood screenwriter.

One Neck Reviews

  • Benjamin

    I created this entry for Todd Alcott's play! And I'm the first review!

    I almost wish I read this without knowing about it, so I'll give a very, very short review first with no spoilers: Todd Alcott is a screenwriter out west who started out as a playwright out east, and this is the play that got him a bunch of attention. Among his main influences/idols are probably Beckett and Woody Allen, so the play includes a lot of smart people talking. Want to know more? Read the play!

    Or read more of this review: a serial killer crashes a posh Long Island dinner party, but the dinner party has secrets of its own. The comedy here is dark, the satire wicked; as Todd notes, when he sent this play around as a writing sample, one agent called to say he loved it, but that it was morally reprehensible. (As he also notes in his introduction, it's quite tame by today's TV standards.)

    This play has a lot of what I love in plays and what plays do well: a tight view on a narrow space with some characters with strong POVs; it also has some crazy violent special effects which I wonder how they pulled off (and how well).