"What kind of a life is it, if it looks like a death? Or, to put it another way, if you spend all your time acting like you're dead, what's the point of being alive?"

In the Tank, an award-winning one-act comedy, focuses on two lobsters: Stu and Harry. Harry, a clever lobster in the tank of a seafood restaurant, is pretending to be dead to avoid becoming someone's dinner entree. Stu, a new arrival in the tank, takes a more philosophical approach to their dilemma. The two move from confrontation to understanding as they share observations about life, death, and the humans who wield dominion over all.

In the Tank has been a coast-to-coast comedy success, having been staged off-off-Broadway in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles. It has also been produced in Silver Spring, MD and in Baltimore.

It premiered in Baltimore in 2001 where it was one of four one-act plays produced under the title Seafood Buffet as part of the annual Baltimore Playwright's Festival. Seafood Buffet won second place honors for Best Play and second place for Best Production in the Festival that year. As a stand-alone production, In the Tank was chosen by Silver Spring Stage as that theater's entry in the 2005 Maryland Community Theater Festival.

In the Tank is available for production through Dramatic Publishing, Inc., 311 Washington St., Woodstock, IL 60098 or on the web at www.dramaticpublishing.com. The published version is now in the collection of 16 university libraries, ranging from New York University to the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.