Synopsis
From the Journal of Hazard McCauley
$12.99
Published by Broadway Play Publishing
3 Male 0 Female
"FROM THE JOURNAL OF HAZARD MCCAULEY is a playful title for what amounts to a psychic play--and an ambitious one....
The surprises Reeves has in store are entertaining...." Robert Koehler, Los Angeles Times
"In Philip Reeves' drama, two men are bivouacked on a snowy peak, ready to begin their final ascent of Everest. The enforced isolation, the thrill of the imminent conquest, the battering of the storm outside on flimsy tent walls--this is the stuff of prime drama. Add the sudden disappearance of a Sherpa guide, one man's increasing psychosis from altitude sickness, and an inhuman cry faintly heard above the blizzard, and the work takes an unexpected leap beyond the merely Interesting to a metaphysical plane where magic is routine, horror is gently implied, and the fantastic suddenly becomes real. The play is superlative...." F Kathleen Foley,The Reader
"In Philip Reeves' drama, two men are bivouacked on a snowy peak, ready to begin their final ascent of Everest. The enforced isolation, the thrill of the imminent conquest, the battering of the storm outside on flimsy tent walls--this is the stuff of prime drama. Add the sudden disappearance of a Sherpa guide, one man's increasing psychosis from altitude sickness, and an inhuman cry faintly heard above the blizzard, and the work takes an unexpected leap beyond the merely Interesting to a metaphysical plane where magic is routine, horror is gently implied, and the fantastic suddenly becomes real. The play is superlative...." F Kathleen Foley,The Reader
Originally produced at the Cast Theater in Los Angeles - Three men (one preferably Asian); single interior set