One of John Guare's classic plays, Landscape of the Body tells the
story of a woman's unfulfilled life and premature death -- and her
reflections from the grave. Betty travels to New York to convince her
sister Rosalie to leave her gritty New York City life and come home to
bucolic Maine. After dying in a freak bicycle accident, Rosalie revisits
the world she left behind. From the beyond Rosalie witnesses Betty
effortlessly easing into her previous persona -- moving into her
apartment, taking over her job, but then Betty abruptly loses her
teenage son to a gruesome murder. In a sardonic turn of events, Betty
finds herself the primary suspect in her son's death. Guare brilliantly
moves back and forth in time and space to create and affecting study of
the American dream gone awry.