Murmuring in a Dead Tongue
J T. Rogers
Spared
by Israel Horovitz
Synopsis
THE STORY: Viewed as if suspended in time and space, a man recounts the jumble of events and people that are his life.
Good, bad, success, failure, happiness, unhappiness—all merge into a revealing mosaic as his tale continues, punctuated by taped voices and screams that underscore the irony of his existence.
He has had so much, and yet so little; has seen and done so many things, and yet the emptiness consumes all.
Repeatedly he has tried to end his life, only to be spared by some turn of fate.
In the end we perceive that his life is all life—the human condition made real through the random pattern of living which is our lot in a world we never made.
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Spared is a comedy play written by Israel Horovitz and published by Dramatists Play Service .
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