Night and Day
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 7M, 1F
- ISBN: 9780573113086
"An unabashed paean to the fourth estate...and those knights errant who rode out on crusades to far flung lands in search of a scoop, a snapshot, booze, a fair maiden and a working telex, not always in that order... All of this provides a springboard for Mr. Stoppard's wit."
The New York Times
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
Dick Wagner of The Sunday Globe and a competing freelance journalist arrive at the jungle home of a white mine owner. Soon they are competing for the use of their host's telex, the attentions of his wife and a possible interview with the missing president on Kambawe.
REVIEWS:
"An unabashed paean to the fourth estate... and those knights errant who rode out on crusades to far flung lands in search of a scoop, a snapshot, booze, a fair maiden and a working telex, not always in that order... All of this provides a springboard for Mr. Stoppard's wit."
The New York Times
"Stoppard is at his dazzlingly playful verbal best... It's fun... bringing rare style to Broadway."
New York Daily News
"Dazzling... It throbs with life and is a pleasure."
N.Y. Post
Characters
- Casting: 7M, 1F
- Casting Attributes: Multicultural casting
- Casting Notes: Cast includes 4 white, 2 black actors.
FRANCIS
RUTH CARSON
ALASTAIR CARSON
DICK WAGNER
JACOB MILNE
GEOFFREY CARSON
PRESIDENT MAGEEBA
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The provocative and funny look at exploitation and corruption, journalistic ethics, freedom of the press and marital infidelity is set in a fictional copper rich African nation. |
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