Summary

In "Call It Joy," Anja arrives in Provincetown four days before the dress rehearsal. On the drive to the Atlantic House, “she passes under banners splashed with photos of herself and Tenn from the sixties, their young faces smiling at each other across the traffic” (318). There are no banners for the other actors, who are “no names … chosen so as not to distract from the true stars” (318). Sally, the Atlantic House owner, “priced the tickets for the once-in-a-lifetime show at one thousand dollars each,” with proceeds going to the Theater Festival and forthcoming Atlantic House Cultural Center (319). Sandrino and Trevor walk in on the table read late; she has not seen them since the séance, as she left the city without notice. Anja makes abrupt directorial changes that no one argues with, and she becomes frustrated with the actor who plays Tenn: “the...