Blue Window

A play about seven strangers who meet at a New York dinner party. 

From the press release:

"The play opens as Libby, the hostess, prepares for the party and her six guests: Alice and Boo (writer and psychiatrist), Tom and Emily (musician and clerk), and Griever and Norbert, who go through the motions of dressing-up (or down), being nervous (or not), getting excited (or not).

"Libby is a woman suffering from a nervous trauma, the nature of which is revealed in the post-party wind-down, via an astonishing and moving monologue which gives the mostly comic events of [the] evening a wholly different look.

"Blue Window is about the need for love and contact between human beings and the various kinds of private obsessions, artistic or pathological, that make us inadvertently put obstacles in the way of the contact.

"But the function of the piece is not to narrate the events of this typical New York gathering - but to present diverse and seemingly chaotic fragments of social intercourse and weave them together into a piece of chamber music. Like a contemporary music composition it has its own discords, counterpoint and rhythms."