Naked Lunch by Michael Hollinger

Hollinger's play Naked Lunch can serve best as a transitional text, suspended between the elegant artificial mythologies of high modernism and the frenetically paradoxical fabulations of postmodernism that have come to dominate recent discussions of the American play (www.playscripts.com).

In Naked Lunch the form is not something chosen in advance and imposed upon the raw material, but a fragile local structure that arises from the immanent relations that appear within the material itself, and demands actualization by the reader.

Once the reader has acquired a reasonably extensive grasp of the metaphorical and critical/satirical bent of the play's recurrent character ...