Signs of Life

The novelist Henry James rifles the imagination of his powerful sister Alice who stages public fits, keeps a private journal and has a female lover who prefers Henry dead; the drunken impresario P.T. Barnum exhibits his miraculous "Elephant Woman" Jane Merrit who is too like Alice James for anyone's comfort; and the suave and sinister Dr. Sloper is far too interested in the scientific possibilities of the bodies of both ladies

And at the center of the play is a mad tea party at which Dr. Sloper and Henry James continually toast the health of "the ladies" who meet only in the men's stories of them

REVIEWS

"An original drama on a provocative theme, advanced in an elegant and literate voice.... What more can anybody ask from a new play?" ~ N.Y. Post

"A true gem ... full of surgical imagery and brilliant giggly horridness" ~ Village Voice