Overview
Silent film starlet Mary Margaret is alone in her Hollywood bungalow,
about to kill herself. John Rose, a former Shakespearean stage actor,
now a drunken silent movie leading man with a bad reputation, calls on
her and tries to convince her to face life. In the course of their
hilarious conflict, images of the actor's past emerge. His efforts to
help Mary Margaret live force him to deal with his own demons and find a
way to cope with the terrible secret that eats away at him like the
cannibal Laestrygonians in Homer's Odyssey. Funny and rich in character and language, this powerful and unusual love story is central to the Pendragon series of plays.