The Day Room

<p>The play opens in a hospital; the characters are patients, doctors and nurses. It is a recognizable, predictable world. And yet, as the scenes unfold - in dialogue crackling with intelligence and insight, with incandescent bite and humour - our sense of normalcy is rocked from under us. Are these doctors and nurses really just patients from the Arno Klein Psychiatric Wing? Or are they something else entirely: people who are <i>playing</i> psychiatric patients <i>playing</i> doctors and nurses? And who, exactly, is Arno Klein?</p><p> Described by the <i>Boston Globe</i> on its first performance as ''an unselfconscious, fizzing, inventive black comedy that is enormously funny'', <i>The Day Room</i> displays Don DeLillo''s extraordinary talents in the brightest of lights.</p>