ABSTRACT
Totally wordless, the play exposes the life of a working woman one particular evening. Through her most banal gestures and actions involving cooking, eating and listening to the radio, Kroetz illuminates the acute loneliness of her inner world. More than that, he makes us confront the relationship of the woman’s gestures and actions, her silence, to social, political and environmental factors that determine her life. It is rare to find a play so concentrated, yet so large in its encapsulation of an entire world.
