Synopsis
Steambath
Published by Samuel French Inc
Large Mixed Cast
The men's area in a steambath is a microcosm into which a girl walks, takes a public shower, and then retires, leaving the stage to two homosexuals who do a song and dance in lip sync
After this prelude, a Puerto Rican gives orders to a scanning TV monitor
Which result in two car crashes
An act of incest
And a theft in a bus terminal
Some of the wishes he projects are vindictive: giving one area more unwanted rain or throwing a dart into someone's eye
Some are erotic
A new arrival does not believe that this person has so much power
He himself is a trickster hung up on whiskey sours
There is a scene of transfiguration with beautiful lighting and music to make the audience wonder whether or not this is God
REVIEWS
"This is no ordinary steambath. It is limbo a waiting room between this world and the next, and the Puerto Rican bath attendant is God himself. Has an acute sense of the ridiculous" ~ The New York Times