Robert Whitman's Raincover.

This article provides information on the theatrical performance Raincover, by Robert Whitman. The renovated warehouse on West 19th Street in New York City is set up in proscenium style. There is a stage approximately thirty feet long, eighteen inches high and twelve feet deep running the width of the warehouse. On the stage to the left, two walls and a floor-price painted white form a corner; in it stands a single chair. Above the stage and to the right, a draped globe, approximately six feet in diameter, is suspended eight feet off the floor. By the audience to the right is small rock, set on the stage floor. Between the white corner and the globe stands an eight-forthright-blue wall. Over the wall, the top of a clothesline can be seen. The main set-piece is a huge plastic mirror, perhaps fifteen feet wide, that extends at an angle, titled forward from the ceiling and reflecting the image of anything directly below it. The house lights fade out. In the darkness, thunder rambles. When the lights come up, the solid blue wall has disappeared, revealing a laundry wall behind it. Visible in the mirror is a woman dressed in white seen from above. In front of her is a small flat rectangle. With a match, the woman lights the four corners of the rectangle.