Jack Gelber is, and has been from "The Connection" on, a dramatist who makes his own rules. His "Sleep," a play of sorts,… is based on the research that has been done over the past few years on sleep itself, and especially on Rapid Eye Movement Sleep and the kinds of dream that accompany it. The setting of the play is a sleep laboratory. A man called Gil is lying on a bed, upstage center, with his head in a metal contraption that looks something like a hair dryer…. Two doctors, Morphy (dim joke) and Merck (another), give Gil a few instructions, and he goes to sleep. The duration of the action is the duration of his first night in the lab, where, by tracking the dreams he acts out as he passes from one stage of sleep to the next and in and out of REM Sleep, we reconstruct his life … and his emotional spectrum—the heights he scales and the pockets he falls into…. [Many] of the scenes are quite good. We see Gil trying to make love to his wife; she refuses, to his dismay and anger, and the marriage cracks into pieces before our eyes. A threatening dream figure forces him to strip, and suddenly his horrified modesty changes to joy, and he goes scampering and dancing around the stage to make the funniest nude scene on earth. Nevertheless, the play is not a success—is not, I think, quite inventive or imaginative enough—nor does the character of Gil, as it is written, seem worth all that attention. But the idea is certainly original. There is a lot of work still to be done on "Sleep," and I hope that Mr. Gelber doesn't abandon it.