The Lady from Dubuque

Three young couples are playing twenty questions. The drinks are flowing, and the mood goes from good to bad in a very short time. The hostess is dying of cancer and the party ends when her pain becomes so intense that her husband must carry her to bed. Then a handsome, mysterious couple arrives to settle for the night, still remaining when the baffled young couple comes down for breakfast. Edward Albee’s The Lady from Dubuque examines whether the mysterious woman is the mother of the dying wife, or actually an angel of death.