Roulette

Synopsis

12 Dialogues.

These twelve plays, set in twelve different locations, are based on themes drawn from an ancient Chinese cosmology called the 12 Branches of Life.

The plays focus on the chance meetings of two people in varying situations and provide a revealing mosaic of human interaction across a range of emotional landscapes.

From a chance meeting between a man and a woman in a café to the aggression of the prodigal son returning home to enslave a helpless older man, Cortese's fiercely intelligent writing illuminates the moments of cruelty or beauty that are inherent in any encounter between two people.