Word: 2e
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PROGRAM NOTES state only that the two protagonists--a man (Ernie Kerns) and a woman (Jacqueline Wetss)--live in apartments 2E and 3E of the same apartment building, but have never met. This coincidence becomes not a plot device--as the audience keeps expecting for the first five songs or so--but rather as a springboard for various types of fantasy. Being in the same apartment line, they are of course identical, a detail which makes possible a fruitful theatrical device: the two characters play out their separate alonenesses simultaneously on the same set. Most of the dramatic tension, then...