I don't know why I like this one so much. I don't really know what it's about, just that I read it five times over as soon as I bought it and emerged with dreamy eyes and what felt like a Mona Lisa smile. Oh, how this man can use language. I would love to see this performed. The play is very short, maybe fifteen minutes at the most, and only one of the two characters speaks.
Nothing is left to tell.
The other character, a mirror image of the first, listens intently to the reading and raps on the table when he wishes to have a line reread. It sounds odd, and it is, but in my humble opinion it is also great. On my top ten list of plays. Sometimes his plots are a little too mechanical, too many coincidences, and he obviously hadn't completely outgrown the strictures of the well-made play, but there is an idealism permeating The Master Builder and A Doll's House and some very complex psychological portraits in Ghosts and Hedda Gabler that, taken together, put him up there in the ranks of the great. And feminists everywhere owe him something for that slamming door.