The Day Room (1987)

by Don DeLillo

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"The Day Room", Don DeLillo's first play, is a black comedy that explores the chaos caused when the onlooker is unsure of the status of a team of medics in a psychiatric unit. Are they really bona fide staff or patients just pretending to be?

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Insanely great play about, not incidentally, insanity; undeservedly savaged by then-Times critic Frank Rich (thus killing its chances for any stage success). Deserves reconsideration -- a truly brilliant, viscerally satisfying journey about the true nature of reality. Highest possible review.

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Le Mot pour dire neige suivi de la Salle de jour (PAPIERS (TEXTES) by Don DeLillo

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