For her he is a bid for the survival of her spirit, in a life turned pallid since her reluctant separation from an active career in the City. For him, an independent contractor always fighting for financial survival, she could turn into the other half of a profitable business deal. The excitement of the deal and of survival becomes the common ground for these two dissimilar people, bringing them together in a briefly satisfying relationship. In a place where even greeting-card bunnies can have rabies, people s true motives can be hidden, even from themselves. The set includes a fireplace.
Sound includes offstage barking of a dog.
This is the author s favorite of four related one-acts called Country Matters , and the only one he is offering separately. The play was successfully staged as a part of the Maxwell Anderson Playwrights Series, in Greenwich, Connecticut, and later by the Theatre Artists Workshop of Westport with the same cast. Themes aspiration, business, career, certification, electrical failure, entrepreneurship, financial survival, health, intercourse, loneliness, neighbor, separation, sex, storm, survival. This Website continues under construction and welcomes new citations and comments . There is a there there with a correct click.