Mastergate

Name: Mastergate
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Larry Gelbart
ISBN: 9781580816472

Author: Larry Gelbart

Narrator: Walter Matthau, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Published: 10/25/2009

Categories: Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Theater

Synopsis

The Tony Award-winning playwright and creator of TV's MASH has fashioned a wickedly funny satire about the Iran-Contra Senate hearings and their participants. A top-notch Hollywood cast, headed by Edward Asner and Walter Matthau, brings this scathing comedy to life.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Melanie Chartoff, Jack Coleman, Eric Douglas, Charles Durning, Judyann Elder, Hector Elizondo, Robin Gammell, Harold Gould, Arye Gross, Walter Matthau, John Randolph, William Schallert, Joe Spano, Jesse White and Harris Yulin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex on October 12, 2020

This joke-a-minute, laugh-out-loud farce may seem dated, but poking fun at the government never gets old.......more

Goodreads review by Peter on February 05, 2016

Hilarious and a great read! Larry Gelbart is a pro at word play.......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on September 07, 2021

Mastergate is no M*A*S*H, Larry Gelbert's Emmy Award-winning classic television series. Nor is it A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the Tony Award-winning play for which Gelbert wrote the book. Posited as a parodic version of what the Iran/Contra hearings should have been, Gelbert's Ma......more

Goodreads review by Kirsti on November 07, 2013

Didn't finish this one either. It had clever wordplay but not much else.......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on April 22, 2013

A real dud. This parody of Iran-Contra and other scandals of its ilk is really the same joke over and over.......more