Edge January 31, 2008

On the last day of her life, Sylvia Plath reflects on her life as a whole. She relives her childhood, the untimely death of her brilliant father and the suicide attempt that became the basis of her classic autobiographical novel, 'The Bell Jar'. Mostly, she re-examines her marriage to the poet Ted Hughes -- and as she succumbs to "what would be called a suicide," the play questions the very act of her death and Hughes's involvement in it.