The Apartment Becomes A Character

“The Father”. Reading plays in the Anthropocene

The front cover: Van Gogh’s “Sorrowing Old Man” (1890)

AN OLD MAN sits in a chair, his head bowed and his clenched hands covering his eyes. Close by, flames from the logs fly up from the grate. Except for the wooden planks of the floor, the black frame of the fireplace and the white wall behind, there is almost nothing else there.