The Six Spokesmen

Six people share a forgotten street in Boston. One of them walks it every morning - same restaurant, same grocery store, same clinic - without saying more than three words. The others watch. They project. They theorize. One thinks he's deep. One thinks he's a movie character. One thinks he looks like a duck. One thinks he killed his family.

Nobody asks him anything. Everybody is wrong. Everybody is a little bit right.

The Six Spokesmen is a dark comedy about strangers, loneliness, guilt, and the stories we build around people we've never bothered to talk to. This edition pairs the original 1999 play - written by a teenage ESL student still learning English - with a revised version written twenty-seven years later. The roughness of the first and the clarity of the second belong together. Neither is the whole story without the other.