Overview

This two-act, four-character drama set in 1997 in the Balkans is about an American who sets out to find Nikola Tesla’s doomsday device only to discover that a machine is not required. Electrical pioneer Tesla, a Croatian-born Serb, was Thomas Edison’s biggest rival. Daisy Archer, a bright-eyed Ph.D. candidate, arrives in Belgrade thinking she has permission to view a certain cache of letters at the Nikola Tesla Museum. She is not prepared to face the museum’s director, Dragan, a Serb with family in Croatia, who has needs of his own and who strikes a dangerous bargain with Daisy. He will test her willingness to see the letters by having her enter war-torn Croatia to visit Tesla’s birthplace and determine whether it has been destroyed. If she returns with photographic evidence, she will be given access to Tesla’s letters. Daisy learns that the bargain is much more complicated than it at first appears, and that she is a pawn in a larger agenda.

Keywords

• Betrayal
• Current Events
• Death
• Politics
• Religion
• War/Military Experience
• From Off-Broadway