As their 25th anniversary approaches, military captain Edgar and his wife, Alice,

face off in a fierce battle of wills. Their sparring proves both harrowing and
hilarious, amplified by the voice of celebrated playwright Conor McPherson (Port
Authority, The Seafarer, Shining City, Dublin Carol). His adaptation brings
lyricism and ferocity to the story of the tyrannical captain and his manipulative
wife, and the innocent Kurt who stumbles into their midst and quickly finds
himself ensnared in the couples wicked game.
Schopenhauer puts a central emphasis on will and in particular has a concept of the "will to live."
Writing a generation before Nietzsche, he explained that the universe and everything in it is driven
by a primordial will to live, which results in all living creatures' desire to avoid death and procreate.
For Schopenhauer, this will is the most fundamental aspect of reality more fundamental even than
being.[p

Boredom isolation
Edgar and Alice have sent their children away to school, after tiring of using them as cannon
fodder in their ongoing war. Even the couples servants are abandoning their employers to their
mutual misery, providing Alice with a nice new piece of bitterness with which to badger her
husband.
Egoistical nature
What is there to tell? All my life Ive been incarcerated here. It used to be a prison you know.
Hes my jailer a man Ive always despised. My lifes sentence is to hate him until the day he
dies. Then Ill dance on his grave. The idea of sex as a battleground and marriage as

a lifelong torment