At the beginning of a long night, the distant arching dome of an old train station is looming over four stranded travelers, four trapped and unsociable strangers who are doing their best to ignore each other. The speaker, one of the four, keeps himself busy with an old reassuring habit: counting people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But then things start to go wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I first performed it in December 1993, at Theatre X in Milwaukee, under the title Teratology, or the Monstrosity Here Beside Me<\/em><\/strong>. I took the time to make good recording in 2005; for me, that recording (presented here) is now the authoritative text.<\/p>\n\n\n