Clea and Zeus Divorce Author:Emily Prager From the back cover. — She addressed the audience. "Duck and cover," she said. "We're getting a divorce." The audience gasped. "No, it's fine, really," she reassured them. "It'll probably be like Scenes from a Marriage: ten years from now we'll be married to other people but we'll be meeting secretly in a motel. Don't worry." — It happened because... more » of an infidelity....The question is whether it was his or hers. You never really know.
After ten years of marriage and acclaim, the great Clea and Zeus are divorcing--and since all their life together has been turned into art, so will they dramatize their divorce. In their last TV special, they enact their glittering history and stage their final breakup. It is a brilliant performance that hauntingly mimics the strange life duet of this famous pair: the monstrous crime that chases Zeus deeper and deeper into laudanum dreams, the terrible trail that leads Clea to a leper colony in the South Pacific, their bizarre entourage of Seven Golden Lieutenants, a Red Chinese poet and a Xhosa witch doctoress, and, overall, Clea's mad obsession that their show will be preempted by an atomic blast.« less