Overview
In this brief, intense, powerful monologue for a mature actor, it's 1988, and John Rose, who has willed himself to live to be a hundred years old because he promised his beloved sister Jessie he would do so, sits on a fallen tree in the woods by the old Pendragon house where he was born and waits for the panther his sister always warned him about to come and get him. See also Nigro's Laestrygonians. Published in Gorgons & Other Plays.