Black Pajamas, Shattered Globe Theatre.
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This late-night show is well suited to its time slot: a tight, tense play, Black Pajamas explores the dark side of the psyche often associated with the night–the haunting, unfinished business avoided during daylight hours. In the silence and stillness of a bar after last call, bartender Sky is visited by a mysterious woman, PJ, who seems to have appeared out of thin air. Eventually their conversation–by turns playful, accusing, lusty, and threatening–leads us to suspect that PJ isn’t actually a woman but the “demon” voices in Sky’s subconscious, personified in a dominatrix-pussycat. But then a psychologist barfly comes in for an after-hours cocktail, and he also sees and communicates with PJ. If she’s simply imagined, then both men are deeply vulnerable to voices inside them that they clearly don’t wish to hear.
