An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein

Doors open at 6:30pm and the show will begin at 7:00.

For those under 18, parental discretion is advised
For numerous sexual innuendos (including fetishes and beastiality) and explicit language.

Welcome to the darkly comic world of Shel Silverstein, a world where nothing is as it seems and where the most innocent conversation can turn perverse or even menacing in an instant. The ten imaginative plays in this collection range widely in content, but the style is unmistakable.

A few examples to wet your palette:

ONE TENNIS SHOE: Harvey needs to broach a delicate subject with his wife. He claims Sylvia is becoming a bag lady, but she protests that her Bloomingdales' shopping bag doesn't make her a bag lady. No, says Harvey, but the picture frame, couch cushion and single tennis shoe retrieved from the garbage do. Not to mention the cold cooked oatmeal in her purse.

BUS STOP: Irwin stands on a street corner with a sign reading "bust stop." When Celia passes, he stops her and proceeds to run through the entire list of slang for her breasts, but Celia turns the tables on him with a lengthy and demeaning list of her own.

GOING ONCE: In a simultaneously comic and chilling monologue an auctioneer shows off a woman, who is putting herself up for auction to the highest bidder.

[More examples available on publisher's website]