Jeffrey Stanley

Full Length, Drama

2 m., 2 f.

Set in 1997 in the Balkans,

Tesla's Letters is a drama of ideas about war and peace, the exercise of humanity and the uses of science. Daisy Archer, an American doctoral candidate arrives at the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade to examine its archives for her dissertation on the great scientist's life. She is not prepared for the museum's director, a Serb with family in Croatia, who probes her knowledge of Yugoslav history and of Tesla, the Croatian born Serbian genius who immigrated to the United States in 1884 and gave the world alternating electric current, wireless electric transmission and, perhaps, a death ray capable of inflicting instantaneous death. He also tests her willingness to risk her life and American innocence by entering Croatia to gather photographic evidence in Tesla's birthplace.

"Is there a more timely play in New York? This well written, well constructed drama ... constitutes pertinent, intelligent, ... and often witty and suspenseful theatre.... Its first act ends with a bang.... Tesla's Letters provides a multitude of rewards." N.Y. Times.

FEE: $75 per performance.