Time's Up and Other Plays

Lance Lee's plays explore the moral dilemmas we face creating lives of coherence and value today with a poetic intensity that transforms theatrical practice. In Time's Up a man and a woman treat the audience as their marriage counselors as they face the world nakedly. At last fox; turns the tables on a sex queen; huntress; and her slavish; hound; to survive as an individual in Fox, Hound, and Huntress. A thinker commits suicide in Gambits, while a veteran fire fighter confronts the same millennial emptiness saving anything that comes his way, including the man's young wife from a murder charge. Rasputin is a Socratic demi-urge whose drive for self realization destroys Russia and opens the door to the greatest modern disaster, in Rasputin. Some of these started at the Eugene Neill Memorial Theatre National Playwrights Conference or through support from the Rockefeller Foundation through the Office for Advanced Drama Research: both Fox, Hound and Huntress and Time's Up are included here from earlier publications. Praise for Fox, Hound, and Huntress Swiftly a number of fascinating themes; emerge from having to do with the politics of sex, sex as a weapon, as a citadel of integrity, apocalyptic sex linked with a force of evil, sex as a metaphor of death; the whole thing is a haunting and provocative experience. Lawrence Christon, Los Angeles Herald Examiner One can only feel pity for his Beckett-like situation; Lee's play is satisfyingly suggestive. Is this a vision of our over-crowded future; will we then turn on each other in sadistic about face; is memory of our former selves the only guide left us? Lee chooses to leave us guessing. Gregg Kilday, L.A. Times Praise for Time's Up But now there's playwright Lance Lee and Time's Up; a dual monologue that accomplishes three things: It takes potshots at divorce; plays amiable hell with its attendant life-support system, the shrink; and achieves both through an inventive presentation; All in all, Time's Up is a witty exercise; Sylvie Drake, L.A. Times Writer Lee skillfully and at times brutally; uncovers the layers and blurred edges of our; statistically correct; couple and gets to the basic and unresolved lie of their almost two decades of so-called bliss's a compelling evening, full of genuine impact. Ed Kaufman, Los Angeles Herald ExaminerLee, Lance is the author of 'Time's Up and Other Plays' with ISBN 9780595169382 and ISBN 0595169384.