Black Monk by David Rabe
“Doesn’t it strike you that those who warn against ecstasy do so because they believe that human life is nothing beyond the physical? They believe only in the material, and so they are lost.”
Directed by Katherine Owens
September 9 – October 3, 2009 at Undermain Theatre
Kovrin, a young scholar exhausted to the point of madness by his studies decides to visit his childhood friend Tanya on her father’s garden estate. The two fall in love and plan to marry. Kovrin tells Tanya the legend of the black monk whose image has been reflected in mirages for a thousand years and who will soon return in the flesh. One day in the garden, the black monk appears to the young man and claims to hold the key to an enlightenment that may lead to total devastation.
