Synopsis

Steambath

Steambath $10.99

Bruce Jay Friedman

Published by Samuel French Inc

Large Mixed Cast
Life is a steambath and we're all just waiting for our turn in the stalls

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

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