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Elena, the richest woman in the world, devises a scheme in which she plays dead and then assumes a different identity in order to spy on her possible heirs, which include a greedy daughter and son-in-law from middle America; a companion, Ramona, who is almost as old and as clever as Elena; a ward who spends most of her time answering her second-class mail; a young doctor substituting for Elena's usual physician; a painter friend, female, who has a loft in Hoboken; and two minor characters, a woman and a man, who keep cropping up at seances, and may be either genuine spirits or hired actors. A sort of modern-day Volpone, THE FOLDING GREEN is a play of wit and language whose targets are greed and contemporary conceptions of money, art, medicine, love, sex, and of dying.

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The Queen and Edward meet, as if for the first time, and slowly discover that the are repeating, or are meant to repeat, the tragic action of Sophocles' Oedipus. The setting is ambiguous: at first abstract, then possibly a playroom in a suburban house, and, finally, the throne room of the palace at Thebes. Drawn to each other and to the fate that awaits them, the Queen and Edward, caught in an intense love-hate relationship, try to avoid a destiny that appears to be inevitable. Figure, the third actor, plays a various roles at various times: an Elizabethan fool, a stage manager, a disappointed actor, the Greek seer Tiresias. He is a foil and a dangerous one. The play is a study in jealousy and explores the relationship between an older woman and a young man. It is a play of shifting moods and changing tones, a modern investigation of a theme suggested by ancient Greek tragedy and a psychological play with historical tones.