THE STORY: After having lived alone for many years Dorothy, a chronic invalid, now has Ida staying with her. Dorothy is connected to a battery of machines that monitor her bodily functions and sustain her feeble hold on life, and she seems to resent and distrust the robust Ida, who may—or may not—be her sister. They talk of other times and events which may—or may not—have happened, and Ida hints that there is a man waiting for her outside, a man who has a friend for Dorothy. But Dorothy can only suspect Ida of planning her demise, a suspicion which seems borne out when Ida, suitcase already packed, suddenly leaves—whereupon Dorothy tears away the wires that entangle her and surprisingly survives.
A brilliant absurdist comedy by one of our theatre’s most creative writers, presented in New York by the Circle Repertory Company in tandem with
Terminal. A funny, touching and tantalizing study of the relationship between two women in which reality and fantasy are juxtaposed to great theatrical effect.
