Rain City Projects

Published in 1899, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper exposes the cracks in the ordinary facade of a woman (a wife and mother) who, seemingly happy enough in her marriage, gradually succumbs to the despair just beneath the surface. Sent to a country house to recuperate from nervous anxiety, she develops an unhealthy obsession with the yellow wallpaper that decorates her "recovery room" and withdraws farther and farther from the husband who tries, in his well-meaning yet controlling way, to save her.

Stage adapation of John Gardner's outrageous novella retelling the Beowulf epic from the monster's existentialist point-of-view.