Borderlands
Borderlands is the last play of Simon Matterbull. Written in 1253 APC, it is an experimental piece which has completely divided critics ever since it was first staged in 1270 APC, twelve years after the author's death.
Borderlands is an intense psychological study, in which the internal mental landscape of a sentry on the isolated watchtower of an unnamed Old Kingdom is explored through a long monlogue as he peers through a thick fog, anxiously looking for any sign of a long feared invading army. There are places in the play where the external and internal are deliberately confused so that the audience is left unsettled and unsure as to what is "really" happening. The famously ambiguous ending has been called a masterpiece by some but a failure by others.
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