WITHOUT  SAYING  GOODBYE

A  three  act  play  by  Elizabeth  Gerringer

Previously  titled   Special  Appointment  -  A  Clown  in  Town

Produced  by  Reader's  Theater  in  San  Francisco,  1984

      Whenever I see an art exhibit and someone invites the artist to explain the paintings, I am reminded of a great wise man whose name I forgot but who once  remarked that the best paintings are those which the artist need not describe.  The wise man also mentioned that it was not significant whether authors and artists wrote and painted from their own experience, whether the observer was aware that the work of art was real or imaginary or out of the artist’s own life or dreams and further, that knowledge about the artist or author’s own life is not necessary in understanding the work of art that was created.

      Without Saying Goodbye is about art, and about the consequences one faces when one paints, acts, thinks, and dreams as an individual and the art is a product thereof and the consequences of choosing life styles and acquaintances which appear to contradict the work of the artist.

      Therefore, since my story requires no further introduction, I shall not attempt to further introduce it.