Apophenia

The play focuses on a young married couple and begins one morning with the wife viewing a cardinal outside her kitchen window. She believes the cardinal is a sign of her recently deceased aunt returning to pay her a visit. This begins a verbal tug-of-war between the wife and her husband centering on faith versus reason.The dialogue between the two seems to place the husband, a trial attorney, at an unfair advantage over his wife. However, the wife, not to be underestimated, quickly turns the match into her own cross-examination of the husband regarding their relationship and how he would define their love for each other. At the end of the play it is the wife who, in her own playful way, has placed her husband's structured, rational views into question.

Run time 10-12 minutes

Cast: 
Valerie, Russell
Authors: 
Terrence Dwyer