"Frederick Bailey [is] one of America's most theatrical playwrights." —Beth Henley
GRINGO PLANET
is an outrageous sci-fi comedy from prize-winning playwright Frederick Bailey.
Oklahoma Daily
, the student newspaper at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, calls it "a shatteringly adept sci-fi spoof and a rollicking good time, with fresh, macabre and insane humor. Easily the funniest production to hit the area in the last couple of years. [There's] no better way to spend the week's entertainment money!"
"Wonderful surprises...I thought it was great!" says
Capitol Radio
in London: "You'll hardly believe your eyes! GRINGO PLANET will have you chortling to yourself all the way home, right until you climb into bed and turn the lights out!"
The
Los Angeles Times
thinks it's a "mix of the Marx Brothers,
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
and
The Thing
[with an] entertaining and tense build-up......Bailey effectively uses comedy to wind the tension even tighter."
And from the
Mountain Observer
in New Mexico: "This is brave, alternative, distinctly American theatre! Action-packed, down and dirty science-fiction with a truly absurd comic script!"
has stalked the boards in London, L.A. and the Actors Theatre of Louisville, as well as in other cities. It's suitable for theatres large and small. A single set—the interior workroom of an auto repair shop in the small town of Ascosidad in the Arizona desert in 1977—with a cast of six: five men and one woman.
"It's what you always wanted to see happen in a science fiction movie, but never had a chance to until now!" —
Daily Oklahoman
Frederick Bailey's Vietnam War drama,
THE BRIDGEHEAD
, was co-winner of first prize at the first annual New Play Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. His plays have been done off-off Broadway in New York and in various resident, university and waiver theatres from L.A. to Boston and London.
More Quotes:
"GRINGO PLANET grows on you...slightly absurd SF horror, climaxing in delightfully silly anarchy...mounting madness had me clinging to my seat...funny, peculiar, and well worth a visit." —
Time-Out Magazine, London
"Off-the-wall and over-the-top comedy thriller...makes the 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' look like a rather dull episode..." —
City Limits Magazine, London
"Frightening, horrific, hard and hilarious...really a good little atmospheric piece and very entertaining."—
London's Alternative Magazine
"The expectations of the audience gape before the unbelievable...Spectacular... startling and affable." —
Event Magazine, London
"Quite funny...Bailey's dialog is lively...delicious!" —
Variety, Hollywood
"Downright outrageous...frequent belly laughs...zany burlesque of the science fiction genre is not to be missed!" —
"...light and zany with lots of off-color jokes and quick dialogue..." —
Oklahoma Journal