The Woman
The Uninvited
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Woman
About the Job
The Woman is well-to-do, and in her late sixties or early seventies. She has spent pretty much her entire adult life married to the Man. At a material level, she has benefited from his career success, and this may well be the only reason she has stayed with him for so many years (a truth she would never admit to). On the surface, she seems quite happy, or at least content, with her life. And where the Man seems permanently angry at everyone and everything around him, she seems the opposite - predisposed to accommodate and forgive, rather than to berate and condemn. And yet, underneath her seemingly pleasant disposition is an incandescent rage that, were it ever to rise to the surface, would make the Man look like the perfect image of sweetness and light. Unlike the Man, she seems interested in - even intellectually curious about - the people, places and things around her. And yet again this is an illusion - or perhaps better - a psychic defence. For while the questions she asks seem to point out towards the world, in reality they merely provide cover for what lies within her. And what lies within is an existential confusion, and an accompanying ontological terror, that is so all-encompassing it would surely annihilate her were she ever to own up to it.
And yet…in her twilight years, cracks are beginning to appear in the ground beneath her feet…
