Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-133) and index

comedies on Menace: negotiations and evictions: the caretaker, the room, the mumb waiter, a slight ache - tragedies of isolation and belonging: bridging the silences: landscapre, silence, night, asches to ashes - betrayals and bridges bunt: the collection, night school, the dwarfs, old times, monolgue, betrayal - between life and death: family voices, no man's land, a kind of Alaska, moonlight - politics at play - house rules: the birthday the hothouse - efficient ideas