Hotel Play

THE STORY: The setting is a hotel in the tropics where a beleaguered desk clerk tries to placate, amuse and occasionally seduce the widely varied clientele who come and go during the course of the play's quick flowing action, each acting out a brief but telling personal vignette. The guests, mostly neurotic in one way or another, represent a broad cross section of modern society and reflect the hang-ups and social shortcomings so prevalent in contemporary life. But despite its ironic approach-and characters-the play is ultimately a paean to the well-ordered and comfortably ordinary-qualities so elusive and rare, and yet so desirable, in our unsettled and unsettling times.Shawn, Wallace is the author of 'Hotel Play ', published 1982 under ISBN 9780822205340 and ISBN 0822205343.