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- When it opened off-Broadway in 1970, its profanity, brief nudity and what some perceived as blasphemy, courted controversy and it closed after 128 performances. A film version made for PBS in 1973, starring Bill Bixby, Kenneth Mars and Valerie Perrine, proved so controversial that only 24 stations aired it.
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Oct 17, 2018 · Five somewhat enlightened decades later, the play is controversial for different reasons: Its dialogue is decidedly misogynistic and full of ethnic, religious and gay slurs.
- Gerri Miller
Steambath was controversial when first produced for its obscene language (which was softened for its television version), its satirical take on religion, and some brief nudity. Friedman claims to have been inspired to write the play in part because of a "bad experience with the food at a Chinese restaurant " that had him contemplating mortality.
Steambath was controversial when first produced for its obscene language (which was softened for its television version), its satirical take on religion, and some brief nudity. Friedman claims to have been inspired to write the play in part because of a "bad experience with the food at a Chinese restaurant " that had him contemplating mortality.
Within “Steambath” there was some adult and unseemly language—including the utterance of a gay slur—as well as two gay characters and, of course, the depiction of “God” in the personage of a Puerto Rican steambath attendant.
You will enter with a bunch of other naked burners (optional but why going into a Steambath with underwear?) and help to clean each other spraying hot water (consent!!!) Than when you go out drying, coming from a 80° C (european here, sry) to 40° C of the playa and you will feel like there will be a fresh breeze blowing in the desert.
Steambath (1983) - Based on the play by American author Bruce Jay Friedman. Starring Robert Picardo in the Tandy role, Janis Ward as Meredith, Al Ruscio as DaVinci, Rita Taggart as Blanche and Allen Williams as Gottlieb, with José Pérez as God (aka Morty). Six episodes were produced and aired.
Sep 24, 2002 · Steambath was controversial in its day for its obscene language (which was softened for this filmed version, originally presented on PBS), its satirical take on religion, and some brief nudity by bombshell Valerie Perrine. Today it's still very entertaining, but mostly as a core sampling of the surprisingly uncensored male attitudes from the ...
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