Comrades
- Short Play, Dark Comedy, 19th Century
- 2M
- ISBN: 9780573696213
What are comrades for if not to try to cheer each other up in a time of distress? Dostoevsky would appreciate the irony.
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Description
- Short Play
- Dark Comedy
- 10 minutes
- Time Period: 19th Century
- Target Audience: Senior, Adult
- Set Requirements: Interior Set, Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Cautions: Mild Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
What are comrades for if not to try to cheer each other up in a time of distress? Dostoevsky would appreciate the irony.
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Premiere Production:
Comrades was originally published as What Are Comrades For?, a short story by the playwright, in both The New Jersey Review and Rosebud Magazine.
Characters
- Casting: 2M
- Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors, All Male
- Casting Notes: FYODOR is cover by a blanket to his neck. His head is swathed in bandages, his mouth cover. Only eye holes break through to the human inside the bandages. FYODOR and IVAN are friends of approximated the same age.
IVAN
