After a nuclear accident at a nearby uranium mine, four very different confused people find themselves confined to the sanctuary of a quiet sunbaked mission in New Mexico. Here they act out what is a rehearsal for the end of the world and face the problem of what manner of person each will be.

"The setting is the lobby of a derelict hotel marked for demolition, from whose marquee the "e" has, perhaps sympathetically dropped off. Past people, past time, past places are fondly recalled by the characters, residents about to be evicted not only from their shabby hotel but from a moment in history."--Jacket.

"Book of Days is set in a small town dominated by a cheese plant, a fundamentalist church, and a community theater. When the owner of the cheese plant dies mysteriously in a hunting accident, Ruth, his bookkeeper, suspects murder. Cast as Joan of Arc in a local production of George Bernard Shaw's St. Joan, Ruth takes on the attributes of her fictional character and launches into a one-woman campaign to see justice done. In Book of Days, Lanford Wilson...

A collection of plays by Lanford Wilson that demonstrate how his writing style has changed from the 1960s to the 1990s.

The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, andd lovers, all of whom constitute a distraction from the passage of time and from the sister's desire to return to their beloved Moscow.