THE STORY: Viewed as if suspended in time and space, a man recounts the jumble of events and people that are his life. Good, bad, success, failure, happiness, unhappiness—all merge into a revealing mosaic as his tale continues, punctuated by taped voices and screams that underscore the irony of his existence. He has had so much, and yet so little; has seen and done so many things, and yet the emptiness consumes all. Repeatedly he has tried to end his life, only to be spared by some turn of fate. In the end we perceive that his life is all life—the human condition made real through the random pattern of living which is our lot in a world we never made.
One of the four plays comprising
The Quannapowitt Quartet. A brilliant acting tour de force, which premiered in Paris to great critical and popular acclaim, and was subsequently presented at Brandeis University.
Included in the collection
Stage Directions and Spared.
