| Constructed with the precision of a musical composition, and described
by Clive Barnes as "a chamber opera and a symbolic poem about communication," the
play juxtaposes three characters-"The Man", "The Woman" and "The Girl" -
and sifts through the tangled relationship which they have evidently shared.
The Man is amiable but distant; The Woman acerbic and bitter; The Girl
is perhaps mad - a catatonic who has destroyed her own child. Elliptical
in form and redolent with evocative overtones, the play weaves together
its strands of conversation and soliloquy into a meaningful pattern of
events underscoring the inescapable fact that while we may listen we do
not always hear, and our lives, for better or worse, are shaped accordingly. |
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