| [SPOILER] I saw the play at the Public and one of the things I remember clearly is two characters sitting in a kitchen. One of them has what I recall as one of the old Duane Reade plastic shopping bags they would give you, and it's filled with various meds and tranquilizers. This character proceeds to tell the other exactly how someone at the end of life can bring peaceful death by putting a bag over one's head, taking these meds, and then falling asleep. Your head falls and the bag stops your from breathing. The character explained that there was sort of an underground organization of people who passed these drugs along to those in need, along with the instructions. At the time I thought, "Tony Kushner is writing this into his play so that people know what to, so that there are written instructions that can be looked up." I mean, my interpretation is likely wrong--maybe Kushner just wanted us to experience the realism of the scene, etc.--but I always thought it was something I could look up there if I needed it. |
