The Designated Mourner

Judy, his daughter, a subtle, witty and deep-feeling intellectual, who reveres her father; and Jack, Judy's husband, who at one time also revered Howard but then changed his mind

Judy was drawn to Jack in the first place because he's an amusing person who perhaps offered a refuge from the high standards inexorably imposed by her father, but his disarming light-mindedness turns out to have some unpleasant disadvantages

As the political situation becomes more tense, and the regime becomes more and more likely to crack down even on relatively quiet dissenters like Judy and Howard, the issue of what sort of books people like to read and how they choose to amuse themselves becomes both grimly personal and unexpectedly entangled with questions of survival

"Strange names and even stranger play, but one which worms its way into the consciousness long after the performance is over unsettling, ominous the fastidiousness of the language and the detached tone in which horrific events are recounted exert a hypnotic power" ~ Time Out

"A fascinating play with beautiful passages of writing " ~ Variety