McCarthy\'s new play packs all the wallop of his gut-wrenching fiction.
Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time..
Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life.
Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men-though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it.
White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair.
In that small apartment, Black and White, as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views.
A startling encounter on a New York subway platForm leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.
The Sunset Limited, though, is not about blood and guts but about the battle for the human soul.
McCarthy\'s new play packs all the wallop of his gut-wrenching fiction
