In the Great Together: One-Act Plays (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781889262079)

Each of these one-act plays resonates with sharp, memorable dialogue and diverse and powerful themes, plots, and characters. MAXIMILAN takes place in 1867 in a prison cell the night before the execution of Maximilian, the former Emperor of Mexico. A fellow aristocrat, smuggled into the prison as a stable boy, tries to talk his friend into leaving Mexico and returning to Austria, rather than be executed. CRY OF THE BOY, a more existential drama, delves into the everyday life of a 17-year-old boy and his relationship with his mother and father. THE DEVIL AND DON QUIJOTE is an original application of the classic Cervantes tale to the story of Don Quijote, a man who has just escaped from an old age home aided by his former attendant Sancho. SCORPIO explores the relationship between a 20-year-old woman named Tom, and Stanley, a 19-year-old who wanders into Tom's apartment as he goes door to door in a Bronx apartment building, selling merchandise made by the blind.

Author: Seth Alan Barkas
ISBN-10: 1889262072
ISBN-13: 9781889262079
Publisher: Hannacroix Creek Books
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d