THE STORY: The setting is a laboratory, where scientists are probing into the nature of love by experimenting with giant Rhesus monkeys. The son of one of the scientists is in love with the daughter of another—but she is committed to her father’s research. The solution: The son dresses in a monkey suit; thereby fooling the nearsighted scientists; winning the fair maiden; and bearing out the theory that while love between Rhesus monkeys is an impossibility, love between a monkey and a human being may well be the wave of the future.
A brilliant absurdist comedy, first presented by the Yale Repertory Theatre, in New Haven.
Included in the collection
Auto-Destruct and The Rhesus Umbrella.
