Jim Henson made a Kafkaesque nightmare and nobody talks about it.
An unnamed man, simply called "The Man" is trapped in a cubical white room where anyone else can enter and leave, but which he himself apparently cannot leave. A stool is brought in covered in strawberry jam, the furniture changes throughout the play. The main character, is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters, as a variety of people come through various hidden doors. But, as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door, so he must find it to leave.
Direction
Henson's puppeteer eye for uncanny spaces, zero puppets needed.
Production
The cube itself: minimalist set design that traps you too.
Writing
Absurdist dialogue that stings with bureaucratic familiarity.
Director
Jim Henson
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