"FROM THE JOURNAL OF HAZARD
MCCAULEY is a playful title for what amounts to a psychic
play—and an ambitious one....
The surprises Reeves has in
store are entertaining...."
Robert Koehler, Los Angeles
Times
"In Philip Reeves' drama,
two men are bivouacked on a snowy peak, ready to begin their
final ascent of Everest. The enforced isolation, the thrill of
the imminent conquest, the battering of the storm outside on
flimsy tent walls--this is the stuff of prime drama. Add the
sudden disappearance of a Sherpa guide, one man's increasing
psychosis from altitude sickness, and an inhuman cry faintly
heard above the blizzard, and the work takes an unexpected leap
beyond the merely Interesting to a metaphysical plane where magic
is routine, horror is gently implied, and the fantastic suddenly
becomes real. The play is superlative...."
F Kathleen Foley,The Reader
originally produced at the Cast Theater, Los Angeles
3 M, one preferably Asian
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