THE STORY: Two people, an old man and an old woman, meet in their doctor’s waiting room. They begin a casual conversation, and he is soon revealed as a would-be poet and she as a dreamer who fancies that she has had much more in life than is actually the case. But, as they tell ever more outrageous fibs to each other, the deeper truth of their essential loneliness emerges—and in a very touching way they “find” each other, and the friendship and concern of another human being which they both need so desperately.
A gentle, warmly humorous play in which two lonely strangers, an old man and an old woman, strike up a rather outlandish conversation in their doctor’s waiting room.
Included in the collection
Three One-Act Plays by Jason Miller.
