Beverly provides some raw insight within her seemingly scattered exterior. As the act continues, cracks are shown in Brian’s brutal forthrightness about his illness and Mark's feelings about his impending death. Joe is still coaxing Maggie to come into the cabin, Brian and Beverly are reminiscing, while Mark becomes frustrated by his lover's jollity, and Agnes begins to talk to the interviewer. As the act ends Joe and Maggie are beginning to really talk, Agnes is struggling to connect to her mother, and Brian and Beverly are dancing. They are connected by their futures, whether they are terminal or not. The first act reveals that each of the three characters is radically different. The act flows between the serious and the humorous, often without a beat in between. It is a normal day for each of these characters getting to learn their individuality is the heart of the play. Felicity is "an old woman who drifts between senility and combative lucidness." Her daughter Agnes is "a mousy, browbeaten spinster who tries to keep her mother happy with fictional letters from a daughter who in fact is long dead." The third family is Felicity and her daughter Agnes. Beverly, Brian's "trashy but devoted ex-wife" arrives. His young gay lover Mark is with him at the camp. Rather than skirt the issues, he confronts them with a dark humor. She refuses to enter their cabin, while Steve has no idea of his father’s impending death.īrian takes an aloof approach to his illness he wants to live each day until the last. When Joe’s wife and son, Maggie and Steve, arrive, it quickly becomes apparent that Maggie is avoiding dealing with the prospect of her future without Joe. Each of the families is introduced in this section of the play. The interviewer acts as a tool for each of the patients and their families to relay their feelings about their situation the characters speak bluntly to the interviewer. We are introduced to the idea that he is dying and that his family is about to arrive, whom he hasn’t seen for most of his treatment. It is morning and Joe is sitting in the interview area talking to the interviewer. They have agreed to be part of a psychological program where they live within the hospital grounds and have interviews with a psychiatrist. Within the three cabins are three patients: Joe, Brian and Felicity, who are to live with their respective families as they have reached the end of their treatment. As the dual investigations unfold, Claire must decide how much she’s willing to lose to take down her husband and the corrupt group of elites who will do anything to protect Griffin’s interests and their own.The play takes place over twenty-four hours, in three separate cottages on the grounds of a large hospital, in the United States. When one of Claire’s acquaintances is murdered, the authorities suspect the homicide is linked to the attack on Claire. Claire’s certain her husband and his powerful supporters would kill her to stop the truth from getting out. If the public were to find out who her husband is, his political career would be over. Just before the attack, Claire was preparing for an exhibit of her shadow boxes, one of which clearly accuses Griffin of a violent crime committed twenty-five years ago. But her well-connected husband, Griffin-who is running for governor-is her prime suspect. The Amazon Charts bestselling author of Last Day delivers a haunting thriller about how far one wife is willing to go to expose the truth-and the lengths someone will go to stop her.Īfter artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn’t know who she can trust.
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