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
"...this clever Alan Havis script...."
Rosenstein, San Francisco Bay Guardian
originally produced by HOME, New York
1 M adult, 1 M child, 2 F
I S B N: 0-88145-092-8
$9.95