Comedy/Drama
The scene is the lobby of a rundown hotel so seedy that it has lost the "e" from
its marquee. As the action unfolds, the residents, ranging from young to old, from
the defiant to the resigned, meet and talk and interact with each other during the
course of one day. The drama is of passing events in their lives, of everyday encounters
and of the human comedy, with conversations often overlapping into a contrapuntal
musical flow. In the resulting mosaic each character emerges clearly and perceptively
defined, and the sum total of what they are—or wish they were—becomes a poignant,
powerful call to America to recover lost values and to restore itself in its own and
the world's eyes. Winner of the New York Drama Circle Award, the Obie Award and the
Outer Critics Circle Award. A brilliant Off-Broadway success by an outstanding playwright,
which brings compassion, humor and arresting theatricality to its imaginative, touching
study of lost souls trapped by society's inexorable decay.
March 29 – April 8
By Landford Wilson
Directed by Ken Womble
Rated: R
