Madagascar

In a hotel room overlooking Rome's Spanish Steps (where Keats spent his last days), three related Americans, at possibly different times, confront each other and their worlds. June works as a tour guide in Rome and leads visitors from the Forum's ruins to the Spanish Steps. Lillian is June's wealthy mother, urbane and well traveled, well acquainted with grief after the appalling double loss of husband and son. Nathan is a scruffy academic who knew them all, including the departed. "All three have been hurt in some way and each could use a rest. And as the play jumps madly from past to present to fantasy, all three come to grips with the unknown. It is a devastating, improbably quiet moment of truth."