Fire & Earth: A Short Script

Who Drives You to the Page Prompt: Barker mad

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LEOPOLD: You think I am mad but the mad are the speakers of our time— Howard Barker, The Europeans

Begins totally dark. A man’s voice, gravelly and raspy, and a woman’s, high and vibrant. Light slowly dawns over the stage as the voices begin speaking. The back of the stage is a sloping, dilapidated porch; a couch…