The Key/Tone Clusters

Two one-act plays by Joyce Carol Oates. The Key is a hilariously perverse encounter between a vacationing suburban housewife, recently separated from her husband, and a prosperous businessman. Tone Clusters is a chilling tragicomedy that takes the form of a surreal interview between a middle-aged, middle-class American couple and the media.

Two L.A. Theatre Works full cast performances featuring:

The Key

Hector Elizondo as Edwin

Don Reed as Waiter

JoBeth Williams as Melissa

Tone Clusters

Edward Asner as Frank Gulick

Hector Elizondo as The Voice

Joyce Van Patten as Emily Gulick

Directed by Gordon Hunt. Recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Santa Monica in January of 1991.