Landscape of the Body

One of John Guare's classic plays, Landscape of the Body tells the story of a woman's unfulfilled life, premature death, and her reflections from the grave. After Rosalie dies in a freak bicycle accident, she revisits gritty New York and watches her sister, Betty, ease into her life, move into her apartment, and take over her job. But then Betty abruptly loses her teenage son to a gruesome murder and, in a sardonic turn of events, finds herself the primary suspect. In what Michael Kuchwara of the Associated Press called "his most surreal and haunting play," John Guare brilliantly moves back and forth in time and space to create an affecting study of the American dream gone awry.