3 F / 3 M
Drama
Doris Lessing considers PLAY WITH A TIGER to be her best play to date and the most complicated in form. It is about people who, having thrown over conventional morality, live emotionally from hand to mouth according to their own rules, often coming to grief in the process. The two central characters, an Australian woman and an American man, love each other but are too different temperamentally to marry. The most interesting aspect of the play is the middle section where the two characters, Dave and Anna, alone on the stage, create their pasts and futures in a game which breaks the realistic form of the play into a kind of expressionism.
