The Lost World and Other Plays

In ISOBELLA, two male lovers in the Victorian England countryside become torn by the unjust desires of a beautiful young woman. In THE GARDEN OF EDEN, four friends discover the sexual exchanges and desires they share while having a picnic in a beautiful botanical garden. In THE VINEYARD OF GOOD AND EVIL, a woman and a former lover race against time to cover a murder of man at an engagement party. In AUTUMN AFTERNOON, three friends discover how much they can truly share when dormant passions erupt. In SCORNFUL HEARTS, a daughter is torn by her mother¡¯s dark confessions of love for her half-brother. And in THE LOST WORLD, a man and a woman discover a dangerous erotic game that soon consumes their lives after a menage a trois goes terribly wrong. Here are six of Jim D¡¯Aniello¡¯s most romantically driven melodramas. This brilliant young American dramatist creates a sensual landscape in each one of his works featuring central themes of lost love, secret passions, forbidden desires, and sexual mind games. Full of imagination and realistic characters, THE LOST WORLD and Other Plays is a unique theatrical experience that captures our innermost fantasies and unimaginable sexual fears.