THE STORY: In CONVERSATIONS WITH THE SPANISH LADY, a sleepless old railroad man describes hauling trains full of the dead across Canada during the World War I home-front plague of influenza that killed thousands of people. As he defends his life, a Spanish lady, cloaked in white, hovers over him as a spectral visitor.
“Schenkkan has written a theatrical tome poem, not primarily of history but of AIDS.” —Los Angeles Times.
Included in the collection
Four One-Act Plays by Robert Schenkkan.
