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A new play by Irvine Welsh and co-writer Dean Cavanagh, about the debauchery of the munchkins involved in the filming of the classic, The Wizard of the Oz
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If you put four dwarfs in one room with enough opium and alcohol, it's bound to end in tears...
In 1935 MGM studios embarked on a movie adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The production called for the casting of many dwarfs to play the Munchkins of the mythical Land of Oz and the studio began recruiting 'small persons' from all over the world.
During production, rumours spread around Hollywood of wild Munchkin sex orgies, drunken behavior and general dwarf debauchery. More sinisterly, a Munchkin is said to have committed suicide by hanging himself on the set during filming - what appears to be a small human body is clearly visible hanging from a tree in the Tin Woodman scene. It is a claim that has passed into Hollywood legend.
Set in a hotel room in Culver City, California, Babylon Heights is Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh's scabrous and hilarious imagining of what could, very possibly, have led to that dwarf suicide.
Babylon Heights premiered at the Exit Theatre, San Francisco, in June 2006
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For anyone remotely interested in The Wizard of Oz or indeed popular culture in general, I highly recommend this hilarious book of the play.
The characters are hysterical, literally, and you remember them long after you've finished the book.
It's violent, pornographic in parts, but it's also laugh out loud funny. I can't wait to see the play in San Francisco.
I would imagine 'Babylon Heights' to become a huge success. It's cultish but by the very nature of the subject, it could become a crossover hit.
The characters are hysterical, literally, and you remember them long after you've finished the book.
It's violent, pornographic in parts, but it's also laugh out loud funny. I can't wait to see the play in San Francisco.
I would imagine 'Babylon Heights' to become a huge success. It's cultish but by the very nature of the subject, it could become a crossover hit.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Saw this play in Dublin in August and thought it was excellent.
I have to say I went there with some scepticism, as I had just finished reading his latest novel The Bedroom Secrets of Master Chefs, which I thought was a poor, tired piece of work.
Welsh's creative juices are still flowing (thankfully in a different direction)and this short play centring around four "little people" is both unique and original in its theme, as well as containing excellent drama and characterisation.
Go see it
I have to say I went there with some scepticism, as I had just finished reading his latest novel The Bedroom Secrets of Master Chefs, which I thought was a poor, tired piece of work.
Welsh's creative juices are still flowing (thankfully in a different direction)and this short play centring around four "little people" is both unique and original in its theme, as well as containing excellent drama and characterisation.
Go see it
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Fabulously dark comedy about four dwarfs set to play munchkins in the Wizard Of Oz.
I directed this at uni and it's all credit to the writing when you watch the audience reaction as they deliberate between laughing, screaming & throwing up!
Rumours of it coming to London - I can't wait!
I directed this at uni and it's all credit to the writing when you watch the audience reaction as they deliberate between laughing, screaming & throwing up!
Rumours of it coming to London - I can't wait!
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Hilarious
Unfortunately I never had a chance to see the play of this but the book was really funny.It made my lunch times at work go very quickly. Read more
Published 27 days ago by WolfGirl1986
Cracking little gem of a play!
I came across this play, on Amazon, when trying to find a piece to do for my A2 scripted production. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2009 by Mr. E. J. Gaynor
Sweet, Dark, Sensational!!!
I am dying to see this play after reading all the press on it. The book gives a flavour, but I can only imagine what the stage play will be like.
Published on 20 Aug 2006 by Natasha Walker
Mindblowing.
A real tour de force from Welsh and Cavanagh. It's brutally dark but madly funny. It's the flipside to the film, and shows how hard it was for the munchkins to function in such a... Read more
Published on 20 Aug 2006 by Eammon Shelly
Amazing Cult Play.
I am a big fan of the Wizard of Oz and Babylon Heights tells the story of the munchkins that acted in the movie. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2006 by Gina Schwartz
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