cover art by Edvard Munch
"Before there was Eve there
was Lilith. In his new play, LILITH, Allan Havis has placed
Adam's legendary first wife at the center of a parable about
marriage. Springing Lilith loose in our age, the play is as
devious as it is diabolical.
The first act is in biblical
times, the second in present-day New York, but the distinction is
not intended to be clear-cut....
Mr Havis weaves an intricate
web of lustfullness and deceit....
The sardonic language could have
been written by a contemporary counterpart of the Swedish
playwright [Strindberg]....
As in his earlier plays, MINK
SONATA and MOROCCO, Mr. Havis shows a mordant wit, used this time
to ask the question, who is Lilith and what is her fatal
attraction."
Mel Gussow, The New York
Times
originally produced by HOME, New York
1 M adult, 1 M child, 2 F
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