Drama
Poetic Drama
Subject:
A Search
Human Soul
Old Age
Death

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The play follows characters in a remote village – an old coffin-maker and his wife, a young mother with her dying baby, a wagon driver, drunks, and prostitutes – all lonely individuals confronting pain, death, and existential regret.
The old man, obsessed with saving and business, faces the emptiness of his life when his wife dies, pushing him to remorse.
The young mother searches for a cure for her infant but must accept his fate.
Secondary figures – such as a bereaved wagon driver longing to share his grief and boisterous drunks – expand the portrait of life and death.
The play echoes questions of meaning, finality, compassion, and solitude – a poetic fairy tale about the life before death and the inevitable encounter with it.britishtheatreguide