Overview
Two women, Gretchen and Margaret, sit on their next door front porches
in a small Ohio town in the autumn of 1938 and talk about their
husbands, both named Clyde, each a brother of the other woman, who have
mysteriously disappeared on a fishing trip to Canada a few months
earlier. As we listen to their funny, sad conversation, we see upstage
the two Clydes in a row boat on Great Slave Lake, and as the play
progresses, moving from one conversation to the other, we are invited to
gradually put together the mystery of what happened to the men.
Meanwhile, Margaret and Gretchen are visited by a pretty 19 year-old
blind girl named Betty who may have been impregnated by one of the
Clydes. Mysterious, complex, frightening, and funny. In Banana Man & Other Plays.