Visit to a Small Planet (1956) [Screenplay]
by Gore Vidal
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Summary
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Gore Vidal's satiric science-fiction Broadway play pokes fun at the 1950s red-baiting McCarthyesque Cold War military mindset.
Original title: Visit to a Small Planet: A Comedy Akin to a Vaudeville
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Humorous, Parody and Comedy
Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Social Criticism
Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Alien Beings→ Alien Invasion & Post-occupation
Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Political
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Best Television Plays (1956) [Anthology]
Authors: Gore Vidal
, Paddy Chayefsky
, Horton Foote
, Rod Serling
, Tad Mosel
, Robert Alan Aurthur
, J.P. Miller
, Reginald Rose
Notes:
- First produced for television in 1955 for "Goodyear Television Playhouse"; produced as a play at the Booth Theatre, New York City, 1957; Vidal later wrote a full-length screenplay adaptation, filmed in 1960
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