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And That's How the Rent Gets Paid

Work

Weiss' first one-man play. "Welcoming the audience into his 'home,' [Weiss] regaled them with tales of his attempts to raise the cash to pay his back rent, while indulging tangetially in [an array of stories and other interludes]. Full of ad-libs and improvised asides, Weiss' performance [in the August 1966 debut] was as compelling as a good stand-up routine, but it also grew increasingly disturbing, as the exhibition of wit gave way to the exhibtion of seemingly very real neuroses..."

Source: Stephen Bottoms, Playing Underground: A Critical; History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement (Michigan, 2006), p. 330.
English
WORK.1966.0003
Jeffrey Weiss (playwright)
And That's How the Rent Gets Paid, Part Two
And That's How The Rent Gets Paid (1966), And That's How The Rent Gets Paid, Part Two (1973), And That's How The Rent Gets Paid (1979), "And That's How The Rent Gets Paid" (1966)
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