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| Mother, wife and son/husband in Night Is A Room--photo does not convey the supposed age discrepancy; the acting does. |
Incest and adoption are themes that run deep and wide in drama, starting with Sophocles' Oedipus plays. And they are going strong on the New York stage.
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| Lorraine |
Night Is A Room is about a birth mother/son reunion, orchestrated by the husband's wife for his 40th birthday. The review in the
New York Times darkly hinted of a surprise plot twist sure to bring gasps at the end of the first act.
Okay, I thought: either a) son murders mother or b) son and mother have sex. Both seemed plausible; I had no inkling of the playwright Naomi Wallace's background. Did her first-hand knowledge of affairs adoption enter into this drama? Or was it just a topic she read about somewhere?
