The Shadow Box

Winner of the 1977 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama, The Shadow Box is a poetic and often very funny meditation on life, love, hope, and the ultimate journey. In the course of one fresh spring day three terminally ill patients and their loved ones gather at hospice cottages on the grounds of a hospital. The manner in which each individual confronts the impending loss of a loved one is as diverse as human nature itself—touching, tearful, courageous, angry, blindly hopeful, and at times, surprisingly hilarious. The Shadow Box is an exquisite story about people, life, and living until you die rather than dying while you live... about eight wonderfully different people and how they grow through the emotional and psychological stages that lead them and those they love to a gratitude for life at a time when it counts the most.