Pardon My Dust by
“What fresh hell is this?” On the day of her death, Dorothy Parker faces a frightening choice: She can remain in a strange room with an unknown guide from the netherword, far from all her old friends—even Robert Benchley. Or she can discover and admit her own truth. As she appraises—through her poems, reviews, stories, and scripts—the highlights of her past, she discovers that her own harshest critic was always...
“What fresh hell is this?” On the day of her death, Dorothy Parker faces a frightening choice: She can remain in a strange room with an unknown guide from the netherword, far from all her old friends—even Robert Benchley. Or she can discover and admit her own truth. As she appraises—through her poems, reviews, stories, and scripts—the highlights of her past, she discovers that her own harshest critic was always herself. Pardon My Dust takes place at various places and times between 1893 and 1967, as portrayed on a single set consisting of a couch or chaise, a desk, chairs, and assorted trunks, bags, and boxes. Its characters are Dorothy Parker, female, any age, but capable of depicting 30s-60s, and Janus, male or female, any age but capable of depicting same range.