Synopsis
Notes from Underground & Scenes from the New World
$11.99 Published by Theatre Communications Group
Notes from Underground is a novella told in the form of the "diary" of an increasingly disturbed and disturbing urban recluse
He smokes cigarettes, masturbates and fantasizes about being friends with Dan Rather
Finally, in a startling turn of events, he kidnaps two small children and takes off for the Midwest
Scenes from the New World is an early dramatic work, a set of three disconnected acts linked by a narrator who seems to be a parody of the Stage Manager from Our Town
As portraits of an unnamed city at the end of the Reagan-Bush era, the three vignettes are mordant and often on target, particularly the first one, set among winos, whores and muggers