Three excerpts from Will Eno’s Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rain:

GENTLEMAN

When I was little, I…wait.  God.  Weird.  I forget what I was going to say.  “When I was little.”  It’s completely gone.

LADY

I want to feel home for once.  Together with someone in the regular world but also together in another little world of our own devisement.  I believe in this.  My picture of life.  Why would I keep having it?  I read the newspapers but I still believe in this.  

GENTLEMAN

Sometimes, I just want to do someone over and have that be it.  Sometimes, I—quote—love, with nothing but my hands and the dried-out words I’ve practiced and remembered.  Quote love.  

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Will Eno is a recipient, along with Adam Rapp, of PEN’s 2012 Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award