It’s hot. The moon is full. There’s not a breath of wind and the air is full of something...
it smells like melting tar, like fumes from a petrol station, like the backyards of
restaurants, like whiskey on the breath of a drunk you love... It’s heady, pungent,
illicit, like desire. No, desire is sweet. It’s unfulfilled desire, sort of sour ... a kind of
lust ... an unforgiving lust.
Sonja meets Pete in a bar and they go back to a cheap motel room. Meanwhile
Christine meets Tony in a bar and they also go back to a cheap room. The catch?
Sonja is married to Tony and Christine is married to Pete. A double infidelity. Two
scenes of seduction and betrayal are played out, each superimposed on the other.
This play was later adapted as Act One of the stageplay Speaking in Tongues.
