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Remote Asylum
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ISBN10: 0573600775
ISBN13: 9780573600777
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Published: Nov 1 2010
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780573600777
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Published: Nov 1 2010
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
DramaCharacters: 5 males 3 femalesIn the heat of a blazing summer three physically and spiritually exhausted Americans: Tom a famous tennis pro; Dinah his beautiful cosmopolitan not-yet divorced lover; and their mutual pal Michael a gay writer (first introduced in The Boys in the Band) try to get away from it all by visiting Dinah's enormously wealthy retired friends - the older imperious Irene and her terminally ill husband Ray - at their fabulous cliff-side villa on an island in the Mediterranean.But it turns out to be far from the perfect restorative holiday they were so desperately seeking. This odyssey has not brought them or their hosts anywhere near the paradise they were seeking but rather to an inferno where a painful purgatorial breakthrough occurs releasing them all and providing true escape from this distant and deceptively idyllic haven.
Remote Asylum is a play which observes the classical unities of time place and action which remorselessly exposes a group of bruised souls - wanderers all and forces them to deal with their fears of loneliness and mortality to open past emotional wounds not yet healed. The event is one of forceful dynamic transfiguration; the conversation is intelligent and adult both witty and grave best described as a kind of orchestrated tone poem.
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