Overview

A group of zany castaways are founding a new society in an isolated spot. Their leader hopes to establish connections with the outside world (if there is one). An old scholar studies the flora, the fauna, trying all the time to keep tabs on his beautiful, promiscuous daughter. A lovesick poet courts the daughter and communes with his dead mother. But while they get caught up in their pursuits, their other companion, a single minded go getter, makes preparations to take over everything and everybody. Performed at the Public Theatre in New York and elsewhere.