Laestrygonians

Laestrygonians

Laestrygonians

Laestrygonians

Overview

Silent film starlet Mary Margaret is alone in her Hollywood bungalow, about to kill herself. John Rose, a former Shakespearean stage actor, now a drunken silent movie leading man with a bad reputation, calls on her and tries to convince her to face life. In the course of their hilarious conflict, images of the actor's past emerge. His efforts to help Mary Margaret live force him to deal with his own demons and find a way to cope with the terrible secret that eats away at him like the cannibal Laestrygonians in Homer's Odyssey. Funny and rich in character and language, this powerful and unusual love story is central to the Pendragon series of plays.

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Cautions

  • Caution Intense Adult Intense Adult Themes

Details

  • Time Period: 1920s, 1910s / WWI
  • Cast Attributes: Ensemble cast
  • Target Audience: Adult

Authors

Don Nigro

Don Nigro is among the most frequently published and widely produced playwrights in the world and has continued to build a deeply interrelated and diverse body of dramatic literature, employing a wide variety of dramatic conventions and styles of presentation. He has written ...

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