New Review: The Longest Running Joke of the 20th Century

For Back Stage, as part of the New York International Fringe Festival.

Here's the tease:

Some playwrights use peculiar experiences to stoke their art. Yet I'd conjecture that few have been through anything like Stephen O'Rourke's experience working with the mentally ill for the last 18 years. The Longest Running Joke of the 20th Century — perhaps not the right phrase for this monologue — is a talented effort, well delivered by the playwright, to work through the conflicting feelings he's developed for his day job as well as for a playwriting career too often put on hold.

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