Palisades : A Play

By Joshua Ruebl

This play is an examination of power and the body. Michael and Sarah, after being married for eight years, question their relationship and confront the conflicting emotions that they have in regards to their identity and their place in a world that has grown increasingly devoid of meaning. A third party, a young photographer named Caroline, enters and disrupts their lives. She shows Michael and Sarah how their bodies and minds are manipulated by the false reality in which they reside and the delusional concepts in which they believe. This drama was inspired by the playwrights John Osborne, Henryk Ibsen, Sarah Kane, and Sam Shepard. Like Jimmy in Osborne's "Look Back in Anger," Michael is unemployed and struggling to find a sense of identity and masculine power within a rapidly changing society. Sarah, like Nora in Ibsen's "A Doll's House," struggles with her internal void in a modern domestic world where where all her notions of career, family, and identity in so-called progressive society collapse and nothing is what it seems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515069052
• ISBN13: 9781515069058
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"