The underpants
Subtitle: a play by Carl Sternheim
By: adaptation by Steve Martin.
Contributors: Sternheim, Carl, 1878-1942.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Theia
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Description: "Using Carl Sternheim's 1910 comedy, Steve Martin has reinvigorated a hilarious, laugh-out-loud farce - The Underpants. As the play opens, Theo Maske, an officious, puritanical bureaucrat, berates his wife, Louise, for allowing her titular underpants to fall to the ground at a parade for the king. Theo frets that he and Louise will be financially ruined and become social outcasts from the inevitable scandal.

But before long, besotted men appear at Maske's door to rent a room - and, unnoticed by the proprietor, to seduce his wife. As scandal erupts into spectacle, the characters reflect, and reflect upon, our fascination with fame, our reliance on gender roles, and our enslavement by sex."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Martin's adaptation of Carl Sternheim's Die Hose.