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A play inspired by Nathanael West’s grotesque novella, oscillating between comic-book absurdity and Sophoclean tragedy. A panopticon of the American dream — not a phantasmagoric image, but an image of phantasmagoric reality.

A young journalist, editor of a column for the unloved, the desperate, and the disappointed, receives letters filled with suffering. To better comfort them — because, as journalistic psychology claims, the unloved write more readily to a woman — he adopts the persona of “The Comforter.”

The full weight and sorrow of the world descends upon the young, hypersensitive editor. His task is to comfort others, while he himself is in a state of permanent depression.

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