The Unexpected Man at American Players Theatre

Yasmina Reza; trans: Christopher Hampton; music: Joe Cerqua; dir: Laura Gordon.

Authors

• Yasmina Reza

A Frankfurt-bound train, a man and a woman, strangers linked by a relationship only one of them knows. Delectable irony ensues. Their interior monologues, delivered to the audience, reveal contrasts in comedic obsession; she, urgent, focused entirely on the famous author; he, laconic, worried about his digestion and his daughter's loathsome fiancé. The play is an oddly compelling study of the relationship between writers and their readers, between a man and a woman, and between (almost) strangers on a train.