This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936.  We meet them at a time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with the drunken revelry and dancing.  Their sparce existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to romance and hope of the world at large.  "this play does exactly what theatre was born to do, carry its characters and audience aloft on those waves of distant music and ecstatic release that, in defiance of all language and logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall." - The New York Times

The mystery is, who is he, who murdered him and what were the circumstances?  And to solve it, Wilson looks at the outsides and insides of his tiny, Middle Western town.  he looks at a middle aging woman who falls in love with the young man who comes to town to work in her cafe. he looks at a course, nasty woman mistreating her senile mother, who is obsessed with visions of Eldritch being evil and headed for blood spilling.  He looks at a tender relationship  between a young man and a dreamy crippled girl.  But Wilson sees far more that this.  he is grasping the very fabric of Bible Belt Americam with its catchword morality ("virgin," "God-fearing") and its capability for the vicious. "...this reviewer liked Rimers for its fluidity, for its language, for its almost musical sense of pattern." - The New York Times

Barry Champlian, Cleveland's controversial radio host is on the air doing what he does best: insulting the pathetic souls who call in the middle of the night to sound off.  Tomorrow, Barry's show is going into national syndication and his producer is afraid Barry will say something that will offend the sponsors.  This, of course, makes Barry even more audacious. Funny and moving, off beat, outrageous and totally entrancing.

"...a compelling show that makes the call-in talk show a metaphor for America's lost souls." - N. Y. Newsday

THIS PLAY CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE AND CONTENT

This "startling modern" tale about attempted murder and a woman's revenge concerns a husband who discovers evidence that his wife has been unfaithful.

He abandons her on a desert isle, expecting her to die.

Strand's adaptation of Montfleury's 17th century poetry into 20th century verse has been called "funny, grim, and superb."

" You can't ask for more than an evening in which you laugh like mad, then sit on the edge of your seat wondering how the tale will turn out." - Washington Post