THE STORY: Pat and Mike, an urban couple, find themselves ever more out of touch with the world in which they must live, and with ever less to hold onto and believe in. He toys with the prospect of suicide, and she with the notion of madness, as they reminisce about the events, large and small, that have brought them to where they are. Their conversation grows ever more bizarre—and revealing—as they seek to “fill the empty spaces,” and to fight back, to survive, against the meaninglessness that threatens to devour them.
A highly imaginative, “free-form” evocation of the numbing isolation which besets a couple as they struggle to adjust to the terrors of urban life.
“She has a reassuring facility with language and a splendid command of her material.” —San Francisco Examiner.
“…A sharp atmosphere of razor-like wit and quick paced repartee.” —Montreal Star.
Included in the collection
Canadian Gothic and American Modern: Two Plays.
