With is a deeply affecting struggle against the inevitable surprise of death. At first, the audience laughs their way through the amusingly mundane problems of old age. As the play proceeds, we notice the character’s lives have become terrifying whirlpools of repetition. At what point do we actually die, when our hearts stop or when we stop engaging with our humanity? Minnie and Clifford are desperately trying to control death, to outsmart him. But the winter of our lives will come, the cold will win out, the story will go silent whether or not we bid it quiet.
With is a deeply affecting struggle against the inevitable surprise of death. At first, the audience laughs their way through the amusingly mundane problems of old age. As the play proceeds, we notice the character’s lives have become terrifying whirlpools of repetition. At what point do we actually die, when our hearts stop or when we stop engaging with our humanity? Minnie and Clifford are desperately trying to control death, to outsmart him. But the winter of our lives will come, the cold will win out, the story will go silent whether or not we bid it quiet.