Judith is losing control of her life, her family, and the English language as her library’s funding dwindles for lack of interest. And now her husband, a man confined to an iron lung, has fallen into a stupor. Enter the asthmatic son who hates libraries, his Indian friend who speaks better English than he does, and a chatty rat exterminator who seems to have read only one book in the library, the Bible, and you have a dish best served with a sense of humor, especially when the library is turned into a fast-food stand. EXPIRATION is a quirky, yet poignant, story of a man’s fading memory of his father, of a woman’s world rapidly changing before her ears, and an allegory of the conjunction of language and capitalism. For stage or radio.