Valparaiso

In Valparaiso a breathtaking play from Don DeLillo a man sets out on what he imagines will be an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso Indiana. It proves to be anything but run-of-the-mill turning instead into a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence. Valparaiso is a funny sharp and deeply satirical look at our information age. This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things in public before listening millions that we don''t dare say privately. Nothing is allowed to be unseen. Nothing remains unread. And everything melts repeatedly into something else as if driven by the finger on the TV remote. This is also a play that makes obsessive poetry out of the language of routine airline announcements and the flow of endless information.