Synopsis
Hurricane of the Eye
Published by Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 1 Female
They are joined by an uninvited, unidentified black visitor, who stays-and stays. He announces that he has come to make a business deal, that he has certain information about the husband, and that the husband will want to buy his silence
But he never divulges his secret. He does, however, inspire fear - and physical interest - in both the husband and wife, and both come separately to confide in him
Ultimately the visitor and his mysterious secret are rejected, but beforehand there are insinuations, fantasies, moments of warm-hearted understanding and even suggestions of homicide in the give and take of the eloquent verbal byplay
In the end a "joyous calm" descends, leaving hints of meanings undefined but, with this, an illusive and tantalizing awareness of the true nature of reality
First produced by New York's famed La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, this remarkable and evocative play offers a fascinating experience in Theatre of the Absurd
" intriguing, elegantly brittle not a depiction of an existence, but an existence" ~ Show Business