Balm in Gilead by Lanford Wilson

Balm in Gilead (1965). Wilson’s first full-length effort, Balm in Gilead centers on a cafe frequented by heroin addicts, prostitutes (both male and female) and thieves. It features many unconventional theatrical devices, such as overlapping dialogue,...

Oedipus 1, 2, 3, 4

Oedipus 1, 2, 3, 4 is what we might call a grotesque tragedy. It is a tragedy because it narrates the true and terrible facts in the plays originally written by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; and it is grotesque because every situation is taken to the limit,...