The Cube
The Cube
In 1966, around the time that Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl wrote Tale of Sand, they collaborated on another script called The Cube, which Jim described as an “original surrealistic comedy…[that] dramatizes the complex, baffling problems of reality versus illusion,” a description that could have easily been applied to Tale of Sand, as well. Like that unproduced script, it centers on a single man who finds himself in a strange place with no explanation of how he got there, basically being relentlessly assualted and harassed by a variety of bizarre characters, driven further and further over the edge, and finally, just when he thinks he’s conquered his demons, ending up right where he started again with no end or escape in sight.
Read More