Terminal Bar (play)
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Terminal Bar is a one-act play by playwright and Yale University alumni Paul Selig.[1][2][3]
Martinelle
Dwayne
Radio Announcer
| Terminal Bar | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Paul Selig |
| Characters | Holly Martinelle Dwayne Radio Announcer |
| Date premiered | 1980s |
| Place premiered | New York |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Post-apocalyptic |
| Setting | New York City bar |
The play was featured in the compilation book The Best Short Plays 1988.[4]
Plot
A plague has annihilated civilization yet New York is still standing. Outside of the unseen voice of a radio announcer, the seemingly last people in New York are a Texan woman, a sex worker and a teenage schoolboy holed up inside the ramshackle Terminal Bar.
Critical reception
The New York Times, "To a great extent, style compensates for the familiarity of the subject matter. What the playwright has done is to create three colorful characters facing their demise with differing attitudes."[1]
Los Angeles Times, ""Terminal Bar" is a play that knows how to set us down into a mystery—the character kind, not the genre kind—while not being overly concerned that we find our way out."[2]
The Herald, "Paul Selig successfully couples the wildly imaginative and the bizarre with sensitive perceptions about misconceptions, human frailty, and the desperate desire to be loved.[5]
