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Auto Da Fé

A part of the collection of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

  • Short Play
  • Drama
  • 30 minutes

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Exterior Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Eloi, a young, sexually repressed postal worker, resides in New Orleans with his mother, a practical woman who runs a boarding house. Though he struggles for rationality, Eloi sees the city as an intolerable hotbed of depravity -- and he longs for the purification of fire.

A part of the collection of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

Premiere Production: Auto Da Fé premiered in New York City in 1947.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F

MME. DUVENET
ELOI - her son