Two businessmen discuss whether a blue-collar type ought to commit suicide. One of the businessmen seems to want to push the guy over the edge, the other seems to want to pull him back. As the play progresses, they become less detached.
Taking place in a nearly empty room with a door opening out into the sky, it's easy to guess at various symbolic possibilities, but hard to pin anything down. Sometimes, the businessmen seem to be from another world; at other times just businessmen whose job is to decide who lives and dies (potentially symbolic in itself). At still other times, they appear to be part of the possible suicide's own thoughts. And yet again, they sometimes come across as everyday people making value judgments about the lives of others (and, in turn, themselves).
Very interesting, with an enigmatic ending.
Taking place in a nearly empty room with a door opening out into the sky, it's easy to guess at various symbolic possibilities, but hard to pin anything down. Sometimes, the businessmen seem to be from another world; at other times just businessmen whose job is to decide who lives and dies (potentially symbolic in itself). At still other times, they appear to be part of the possible suicide's own thoughts. And yet again, they sometimes come across as everyday people making value judgments about the lives of others (and, in turn, themselves).
Very interesting, with an enigmatic ending.
