Reckless

by Craig Lucas

THE STORY: At home on Christmas Eve, Rachel is informed by her guilty husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her, and she must flee for her life--which she does by scrambling out the kitchen window and into the snowy night. She meets and joins u

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822209373
• ISBN13: 9780822209379
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
• Length: 57 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Twisted

What I love about this play is that every time you read it, you find new tidbits to muse over. It's twisted, unexpected, and you should be reading it now instead of these schmucky reviews.

Invite RECKLESS-ness into your life!

I've just finished acting in this play. I played Rachel, the Alice in Wonderland-esqe protaganist who keeps getting tossed and turned, from Springfield to Springfield, until she is finally forced to make some very interesting conclusions about the reckless world she discovers she is living in. RECKLESS conveys such a wide range of emotions, and any reader who can remember the magic of Christmases past, the glorious expectations of childhood, the DREAM of what life was supposed to be, will enjoy this play.It also happens to be one of the funniest plays I've ever read, and even if you're not acting in it or directing it, it is a play that you will enjoy reading, because it is so well-written and elegantly crafted. In fact, it is a very intricate text, with so many hidden meanings and word plays, that a close reading of it IS necessary if you are going to act it as it should be acted. Touching, beautiful, sad and true, RECKLESS is a gem of a play.

I starred in this play in college.

The play is existentialist in nature, but not unapproachable. It is funny and sad, lighthearted and dreary. It layers daily, late 20th century, silly modernisms and affectations with subtle philosophical ponderings. Rachel is delightful and strange. The audience feels for her as she endlessly quests from one Springfield to another, realizing that Santa and Satan are inherently related and that you can never really know anyone . . . not your husband, your son, your assasin, not even yourself. A must-read. A must-perform. You'd be "reckless" not to. A comedy, with some serious edges.