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Contained in: "Modern Women Playwrights of Europe" published by Oxford University Press

2000

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Notes:
Original Playwright Asrtid Saalbach

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Hampstead Theatre, London >>>

1995

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Play/Drama

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written 1993

Synopsis:
A haunting, puzzling and quizzical play. At first, it seems hopelessly fragmented. Is this scene an echo of another scene? A variation on it? Or a continuation? Regardless, the short scenes hold and tease the audience's imagination. The seven actors each play multiple roles. Each character appears in a brilliantly observed and imagined vignette, in which trivial incidents and remarks echo things which happened to the same actor when he/she played another character. There are three "morning scenes" that are about beginnings and the endings lurking within. Then there are three "evening scenes", in which a sense of ending is underscored by a perception of beginnings. In between there are four intermezzos, which are even shorter and suggest transition, repetition, and uncertainty. Each story has a sense of completion, yet there is the suggestion of endlessness. The effect is kaleidoscopic, impromptu, yet carefully planned