The Pull of Negative Gravity - Nick Hern Books Drama Classics | Modern Play Script for Theater Performances & Drama Studies

Reading a play on the page is always a puzzling, dissociative experience, but in this case the lyrical quality of the writing makes it a worthwhile one.Here, Lichtenstein is concerned with the coming-apart of things, and the failure of the human need to always connect. Relationships, familial and sexual, struggle to hold together in the face of death, and Lichtenstein's solemn pragmatisation of the human cost of war casts a sober shadow over the breaking and broken characters.Elegiac and beautiful, with moments of transcendent possibility.