The Sensualist

The first play featured in Title:Point's (pre)conception series, The Sensualist traverses the love lives of Leonard- a once great musician - and the women who discovered him. As the consequences of past, present and future loves play out, each is faced with the reality of indulging one's appetites and starving one's dignity. After not producing music for many years, Leonard has recently hired a young protégé to aid him in the creation of a new album based on T.S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland'. As Leonard unsuccessfully tries to ceate new music, Leonard's past relationships unfold: his marriage and the subsequent affair with his sister-in-law. Scenes with these women dovetail on and off the stage and Leonard's inner conflict with his music increases as Interviewers enter in and out of his conscious longing for recognition, validating his celebrity and belief in his creative work. As the three women begin to forge identities separate from Leonard, he fights blindly to keep them present, to keep them alive aside his (potentially) dying talent.