“A number of my patients have had dreams of decapitation, and I, also, awoke from one of these dreams.” Gillian recorded this information in her notebook, paused and looked out. She did not care to write the details of her own nightmare last night which she could still clearly recall. From her twelfth floor office-apartment in the art deco building at 91st Street she was able to scan the whole park.

Karen Malpede’s just finished play Prophecy will receive two public readings in New York this spring, at New York Theater Workshop, in late February, and at the Makor Steinhardt Center of the 92nd St. Y, on April 23. The play will be presented as a staged reading in Berlin, at the English Language Theater, on March 31.