I thought this play was hysterical! Great, easy, fun read. Satirical and incredibly witty. Amy and David Sedaris do not disappoint.

Burritos, sweat and cheese.

Hilarious collaboration between 2 of my favorite people :)

Hilarious. I wish the other plays they wrote together (Little Frieda Mysteries, etc) were available. I saw several of them as originals at La Mama, and they are hands down the most fun nights I've ever spent in a theater.

I enjoyed riding this rollercoaster of laughs and groans. THE BOOK OF LIZ will be a ridiculously fun play to direct, and I will be looking for the opportunity to direct it with some friends.

Grotesque, hilarious, extreme but somehow touching. Stranger than Strangers with a weirdly sensitive underbelly. Truly an unholy child formed by the union of the most hilarious brother and sister.

This play is better seen than read. Loooove Amy Sedaris (and she was hilarious in this production) but more than most plays, this one is tough to just read.

I am really liking the satirical nature of this play-it goes above and beyond what I expected which is saying something considering I am an avid reader of the Sedaris family. I am actually keeping this play in mind to perform with some great actors I know.


is is just me or do some of the female characters come across as Monty-Python-esque men/women? I really feel like Mrs Butterworth would be even more hilarious if she were played by a man. Thoughts?

a funny and interesting little play. i bet it would be Very funny (ha ha) staged, but for reading it is much more funny intriguing.

not as "laugh out loud" funny as I expected, being as it was written by the Sedaris siblings - would love to see it performed. 3 1/2 to 4 stars

This fun and quirky satirical play was produced by the brother and daughter team that is well-known for humor. The main character, Sister Elizabeth Donderstock, is Sqeamish, which is a religious order. The order (both nuns and priests) lives in the community of Clusterhaven, which survives primarily on the successful sales of its cheese balls. Liz is the originator of the recipe, and she is feeling less than respected when she is constantly looked over for various assignments by the head of the order. As a result, she decides to leave.

Once on her own, she befriends a nice Ukrainian couple, who ironically have a Cockney accent. They are more than happy to help her out in getting settled in. Before long she finds herself with a successful job waiting tables at a nearby family restaurant called Plymouth Crock. While the restaurant works well, the staff contingent seems to be totally made up of recovering alcoholics. When the manager is offered a promotion to regional manager, he turns to Liz as a replacement because of how well she does her job. The problem is that she is a heavy sweater, which is disconcerting for many customers. She is going to have to have surgery to correct things if Liz is going to take the job.

Clusterhaven is now struggling to make ends meet. While Liz kindly left them the recipe so they could continue with their cheese ball business, the recipe doesn't seem to be quite working. Try as they might, the nuns and priests can't seem to get the taste right. The failure is endangering the survival of the community since they can no longer bring in the needed income.

You will have to read the short play to find out how everything is sorted out in the end. This was a quick read that I picked up because I have been enjoying David Sedaris' collections of essays so much. I really enjoyed it a lot, though there really is only a loose sense of reality in what is going on. If you can live with that, you will find yourself laughing at the high-jinx.

Very dumb, very funny, short play. What's a breakfast burrito?