The four interconnected narratives which comprise Man on Stage mark both an experiment and a departure for Stephen Dixon, the widely acclaimed author of over three hundred short stories and the recent novels Frog and Interstate. Working for the first time within the expanded format of the philosophical monologue, complete with internalized stage directions, Dixon gives free range to themes ranging from the relationship of man to woman, parent to child and created to creator. The result is a comic, frantic performance as much at home on the page as on stage.·