Time's up and Other Plays

<p>Lance Lee's plays explore the moral dilemmas we face creating lives of coherence and value today with a poetic intensity that transforms theatrical practice.</p> <p>In <I>Time's Up</I> a man and a woman treat the audience as their marriage counselors as they face the world nakedly.</p><p>The last 'fox' turns the tables on a sex queen 'huntress' and her slavish 'hound' to survive as an individual in <I>Fox Hound and Huntress</I>.</p><p>A thinker commits suicide in <I>Gambits</I> while a veteran fire fighter confronts the same millennial emptiness saving anything that comes his way including the man's young wife from a murder charge.</p><p>Rasputin is a Socratic demi-urge whose drive for self realization destroys Russia and opens the door to the greatest modern disaster in <I>Rasputin</I>.</p><p>Some of these started at the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre National Playwrights Conference or through support from the Rockefeller Foundation through the Office for Advanced Drama Research: both <I>Fox Hound and Huntress</I> and <I>Time's Up</I> are included here from earlier publications.</p>