In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behavioral researcher K252;rmann is given the opportunity to start his life over at any point he chooses and change his decisions and actions in matters both serious and mundane8212;He could save his marriage, become politically active, take better care of his health, or even change the color of his living-room furniture. Despite his intention to apply the wisdom he has acquired with age, K252;rmann finds himself inexorably trapped in the same decisions. Ultimately proving fatal, K252;rmann8217;s life game interrogates how much of our own path is shaped by seemingly random factors and how much is in fact predetermined by our own limited, conditioned selves. The play8217;s central idea8212;that our lives are nothing but a self-conscious play with imaginary identities8212;is brilliantly captured in Biography8217;s dramaturgical form, set up a theatre rehearsal as the metaphor for the endless possibilities and variables of the game of life. Frisch8217;s own revised, dramatically heightened version of his play celebrates not only the theatre as a form of self-expression but also the human condition in all its potential and limitations as it showcases both comic and tragic outcomes that define all our lives.