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jess_esa's review
"how in the world, when
all alone, hearing
nothing but the waves always
crashing, how he managed to endure a life so full of tears"
I read this after being so taken with Philoctetes as a character when I read An Arrow's Flight recently. Unsurprisingly, this was equally as devastating.
It's such a haunting portrait of loneliness crafted around a man so relatable you can't help but feel his isolation as your own. It doesn't surprise me that this play was used as part of the Theater of War Project for veterans, has been depicted as an AIDs allegory, and resonates so strongly with the chronically ill and disabled.
It depicts the wound of being abandoned by society in a time of need so brutally that you can't help but be deeply moved by it. I'm glad I finally added this one to my read list.
all alone, hearing
nothing but the waves always
crashing, how he managed to endure a life so full of tears"
I read this after being so taken with Philoctetes as a character when I read An Arrow's Flight recently. Unsurprisingly, this was equally as devastating.
It's such a haunting portrait of loneliness crafted around a man so relatable you can't help but feel his isolation as your own. It doesn't surprise me that this play was used as part of the Theater of War Project for veterans, has been depicted as an AIDs allegory, and resonates so strongly with the chronically ill and disabled.
It depicts the wound of being abandoned by society in a time of need so brutally that you can't help but be deeply moved by it. I'm glad I finally added this one to my read list.
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