Children of Darkness
- Full Length Play, Drama
- 9M, 1F
- ISBN: 9780573607004
A distinguished and beautifully written play...Rare qualities of style, grace, wit and sardonic humor.
New York Post
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
A splendidly raffish gallery of rogues inhabit Newgate Prison in the London of 1725. Besides the conniving jailkeeper, there are his daughter, who favors the prisoners according to their money, a titled scoundrel, a poet, a whining condemned man, and a family prisoner dressed in exquisite lace. There is savage humor in their strategems, and the whole makes a shocking picture of historical justice.
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A distinguished and beautifully written play...Rare qualities of style, grace, wit and sardonic humor.
New York Post
Characters
- Casting: 9M, 1F
CARTWRIGHT - he is young, straight, clear-eyed
MR. FIERCE - a muscular ruffian, bare-headed, bare-throated and coatless
JONATHAN WILD - a burly, boisterous man of forty
LA RUSE - a polished, cynical, middle-aged-man
LAETITIA - she is twenty-nine, a ravishing woman; vital to the excess of carnality
LORD WAINWRIGHT - a nobleman whose face is a chronic deadly white. His teeth are his most prominent feature; they protrude over his lip. His eyes are his least prominent feature; they are of that peculiar gray which seems to diffuse itself, the better to see. In his bearing, he has the genuine distinction of his class; and his speech is tinged with a hesitancy which is contradicted by the decisiveness of his thoughts.
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A splendidly raffish gallery of rogues inhabit Newgate Prison in the London of 1725. Besides the conniving jailkeeper, there are his daughter, who favors the prisoners according to their money, a titled scoundrel, a poet, a whining condemned man, and a family prisoner dressed in exquisite lace. There is savage humor in their strategems, and the whole makes a shocking picture of historical justice. |
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