THE STORY: As described by John McClain: “… in this case the Big Fish is a former professor of great promise whose career went to pot when a trustee’s daughter committed suicide, leaving a note that compromised him. Since then he has lived in the oblivion of an insignificant research job, maintaining an apartment which has become the nesting place of an incredible assortment of friends. There is somebody’s wife from Conshohocken, PA., with whom he has had an affair for twenty years, an old-maidish gentlemen who teaches art, a dyspeptic and presumptuous ex-publisher, and a young and highly successful author…these people all love him in their divergent ways, and it is this affection upon which he feeds and upon which, conversely, they are equally dependent. So strong is this mutual bond that when he is offered a permanent job that will take him abroad the sycophants rise in fierce indignation, and it is only the persuasion of the young novelist that induces him to leave his complacent rut. The final episodes of the play bring the realization that in his fulfillment there will yet be a need for these friendships, and his dear ones are secure in knowing their contribution to his regeneration."
“For all its delightfully funny aspects, it is uncommonly perceptive…” —New York Daily News.
“…scenes of fresh and original wit and humor.” —New York Post.
