Cast: ISABELLE GARBANI, ANITA MORENO, SAM CRUZ

Three strays seem to have drifted from lives with wrong turns and crucial pieces missing, to  fulfill an improbable, possibly absurd destiny. Or is this just another cul de sac? 

A play titled Apostrophe must be about writing, right? (though not necessarily about punctuation). The issue is indeed a book, or two books. The mistakenly titled one that became a great success, and the one not yet written and maybe impossible to write.

I wrote this play sitting in the almost empty Bryant Park during the covid shut-down in New York. Then I left the city, the pandemic and the play — all unfinished — for the balmy south. But in the way that these things happen the three characters refused to gather dust on a shelf and demanded that their voices be heard. While the play is not set in a particular time and place, their questions, their rants, however calamitous, however silly, however needy, are as timely as ever.  

May 2024