Mastergate

by Larry Gelbert
Edward Asner

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

Creators
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L.A. Theatre Works

Edition: Unabridged
Release date

April 12, 2006
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  - ISBN: 9781580816472
  - File size: 50429 KB
  - Duration: 01:45:03
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- English
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- AudioFile Magazine
  
  Wiley Slaughter and Shepherd Hunter--a superbly deadpan Walter Matthau--have just completed one of the CIA's most covert and inane operations, which allegedly included producing Hollywood films for foreign dictators. Now they sit before a select joint House and Senate subcommittee, Senator Archer Bowman presiding--gleefully played by Ed Asner--ready to spill the beans. Every A-list actor in this broad, scathing, and somehow whimsical satire has the vocal style of real Congressional hearings down pat. Award-winning playwright and creator of the "M.A.S.H." TV series Larry Gelbart wrote this play in response to the 1980s Iran-Contra affair. It's clear from the uproarious audience laughter throughout this live recording that this political farce continues to ring true. B.P. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
- Library Journal
  
  Starred review from March 1, 2010
  The late Tony Award-winning playwright Gelbart's tour de force political satire about the Iran-Contra Senate hearings is enough to make listeners cry with laughter and also to shed a few real tears over the realistic nature of it all. Double-speak and triple-speak rule the day in a way that would make George Orwell proud; Gelbart reveals a mastery of puns and double entendres that indicates that his abilities have only improved since his work on TV's "M*A*S*H". The sound production is top-notch, while the performances of the 16-person cast, headed by Walter Matthau and Edward Asner, are all stellar in tone, emphasis, and execution. Strongly recommended.Lance Eaton, Peabody, MA
  Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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