Youth and The Girl visit Life and Death because they want to risk their lives. Life and Death play a game to determine who wins the person. If Life wins, the person lives, and if Death wins, the person dies

Life: Molly Clementz
Death: Matt Peckham
Youth: Max Hosmer
The Girl: Olivia Doig

The Game is a four-character allegory play, an “English morality play” as William Zorach called it, with the characters of Death and Life vying with a toss of the dice for the lives of the nameless “The Youth,” a male poet, and “The Girl,” a dancer.  Each of the two young people decide that their life is not worth living for lack of love, but Life helps them both realize that what they had called love was really just desire.  After The Girl dances to two of The Youth’s poems, they each decide they have now found real love.  A debate about the meaning of life and its value ensues, but ultimately it’s realized that the toss of dice will determine the young people’s fate: Life ultimately wins both tosses.