The Bed-Sitting Room (play) - Literary and Dramatic Counterparts

Literary and Dramatic Counterparts

The Bed-Sitting Room can be compared with The Goon Show, in which Milligan and Secombe were involved, but with a savage, cynical and even more surreal edge, and an existential despair; one critic memorably described it as being "like Samuel Beckett, but with better jokes".

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