Chemeketa Theater
2007-2008 Season
Two Rooms
by Lee Blessing
Somewhere in the Middle East an American professor is held hostage, blindfolded and alone in a cell. His wife Lainie waits for him at home in a surreally empty room while her life comes apart at the seams. Pressured by visits from an evasive government representative and a headline-hungry journalist, Lainie becomes increasingly afraid of losing her husband forever. Who can she trust? How can she help him?
Written in the late '80s, this searing portrait of solitude and devotion rings eerily true to today's news.
A revealing study of the personal side of terrorism, Two Rooms is also a love story between two people whose lives are interrupted by a world falling apart.