Description
NUMBER OF PAGES: 18
CAST: 6 women, 2 men
GENRE: tragedy, comedy
SYNOPSIS: A young woman, Michelle, tells the story of her life. She tells the story to her husband’s past lovers. Her husband, Matt, once a very attractive ladies’ man, is now a severely disabled human wreck (since being in a car crash he is paralyzed and blind). Despite his handicap, Matt is determined to enjoy life. He takes pleasure in spending time with his sister, nurse and therapist. One moment he is happy, the next moment he is bitter, but overall, he’s resolved to fight his disability. Michelle does not take Matt’s relationships well. She wants him for herself. She gradually isolates him from these women and from the outside world, which eventually kills Matt. At the end of the play, Michelle symbolically accepts Matt’s fate. His lovers become mere ghosts and Michelle, seated in Matt’s wheelchair, loses her eyesight.
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