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A man sits on a bench at the edge of an abyss watching the human race rush into it. Along comes a second man contemplating "a heroic dive." What is the abyss and what are these men doing here?
Jannuzzi's first play in New York was A Bench At The Edge, staged at St Clement Theatre in May 1981, followed by The Barbarians Are Coming staged at the Double Image Theatre in May 1983. Bench won the Samuel French short play competition, Barbarians won the 1986 Goshen Peace Prize and both were subsequently published.
A Bench at the Edge was Luigi Jannuzzi’s debut play. It is an abstract, avant-garde two-hander which explores ideas surrounding life, death, suicide and the abyss. It probes at the dark shadows of society, asking what drives people to the edge and what makes them want to keep on living.
5 dic 2019 · Written by Luigi Jannuzzi and directed by Kasia Różycki, A Bench At The Edge offers a slightly absurdist take on ‘taking the plunge’. Outside a ‘hospital’, ‘No. 1’ (Meg Lake) sits on a bench which overlooks ‘the abyss’. In spite of her nearness to the gaping chasm, she is unperturbed by its presence or its proximity ...
21 gen 1998 · Bench At The Edge is a surrealistic black comedy that celebrates the gift of life through the loss of life. Held to his comatose body in a hospital bed by a long life support tube, Man One continues to live out a twenty five-year life support existence at the edge of an abyss.
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A Bench at the Edge. Luigi Jannuzzi. ISBN: 9780573600548. Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 6th Series £11.99. Overview. A person sits on a bench at the edge of an abyss. In the style of Theatre of the Absurd, this is simply done as a bench on the edge of the apron. Along comes a second person contemplating "a heroic dive."
27 nov 2019 · Bench at the Edge by Luigi Jannuzzi provides the audience with an interesting perspective on how things might look after somebody has attempted to commit suicide. From the long-standing patients kept alive on life support machines and now stuck in an afterlife limbo, to those hovering unconsciously between two worlds as they ...
