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Anna and her beloved gay brother Carl, finally make a long planned trip to Europe in search of a cure for her recently diagnosed terminal illness. But when they get there, nothing is, as it seems. Why is Carl always in his pajamas? Who is the mysterious Third Man? And why do none of their holiday snaps look anything like the places they visit? The play serves as both a study of grief and loss, and a surreal farce reflecting the ambivalent response of the US government to the AIDs crisis.
This serious comedy was American playwright Vogel's response to the death of her brother, who died in 1988 from complications due to AIDS. Whilst it has established itself as a modern American classic, it has not been performed in Ireland up until now. It won the Obie award for the best American play in 1993 and Vogel went onto win the Pulitzer Prize for a later work, How I Learned to Drive. This is the first professional production of this play in Ireland.