Word: afterworld
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Briefly, it tells of three dead people whose souls are given three days to decide where they would like to go, Valhalla, Erehwon, or Xanadu, all substitutes for censored sections of the Afterworld. There are two subplots: a search for the Ring of Nibelung and a fix of the Hoop Race in Valhalla, not to mention a takeof on the Cocktail Party and what seemed to be an allusion to F. Scott Fitxgerald. Let it suffice to say it was confusing...
...cast into bronze. A rich private cemetery in Falls Church, Va. had ordered the figures for a fountain, and Carl Milles had decided to model them on friends he had known long ago. The friends were all dead, but not to Milles. He had shown them in some pleasant afterworld living happily on forever...
...find the fountain in a courtyard, surrounded by a marble wall. "The idea," explains Milles, "is to help people overcome the tragedy of death. To show that people have a good time there, too." There will be a young husband, arms out stretched to welcome his wife into the afterworld; a mother greeting a daughter; a French family which had been killed in an auto accident; two sisters who had drowned; an American mother who had died in childbirth, and her baby who had died three weeks later...
...Babylon" that shrunk some fifteen or twenty minutes with each presentation--and became, therefore, progressively incoherent--the whole concoction of "experimental drama" has reached a boiling point in danger of exploding the esoteric little test-tube--blowing obscure lines, allusive ripostes, and painfully witty scenes into that theatrical afterworld from which reincarnation is impossible...
...play's setting is "a fair oasis in the purest desert" of the afterworld. Job, his wife, God and the Devil are the actors, and the theme is the place of reason (or lack of it) in man's lot under God's hand. Says God (who, like his servant, is pure New Englander in sense and idiom): I've had you on my mind a thousand