Ladies Room

In an ethereal highceilinged room women stand waiting Perhaps its Purgatory and theyre dead In the room two young women one an actress and the other a psychologist watch the last few days of their lives on a TV screen Both are having affairs with married men each has a long encounter with her lovers wife and both these scenes take place in a ladies room one backstage at a play thats about to preview the other at an opera house during the first act The relationships between each pair of younger and older women take surprising turns and in the room with the TV a sylph asks probing and challenging questions of the two young women as they watch