The Unexpected Man

The Unexpected Man (French: L'homme du hasard) is a play written in 1995 by Yasmina Reza.[1] The play is set in a train from Paris to Frankfurt, with two people sharing a compartment. One is a famous author, and the other is a woman who admires his work.[2]

Plot

A man and a woman sit opposite each other in the detached intimacy of a train compartment on a journey from Paris to Frankfurt. He is a world-famous author, she carries his latest novel in her bag and ponders the dilemma of reading it in front of him. As both the woman and man ponder their situation in the compartment, they bring past events and philosophies up in separate monologues. Finally in the ending of the play, they speak conversationally, and in the last line of the show the woman calls the author by his name, revealing to him that she did indeed know who he was.[3]

Characters

Parsky: A well-known author, travelling to Frankfurt to meet his daughter's significantly older fiancé.

Martha: A middle-aged woman, a fan of Parsky's oeuvre.


References
  1. Ng, David (2011-05-02). "Playwrights Yasmina Reza and Christopher Hampton discuss 'God of Carnage'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2022-11-28. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  2. Vaswani, Shivangi (2018-11-23). "Strangers on the Train". Indian Express. Archived from the original on 2018-11-28. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  3. Reza, Yasmina. The Unexpected Man. United States, Dramatists Play Service, 1998.


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