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By the Waters of Babylon
Dramatized by Brainerd Duffield Author(s):
Stephen Vincent Benet
We begin with gentle, primitive people—an older man talking to his son, a young man who wants to go on his journey. Meanwhile, the chorus behind them calls out warnings. It is forbidden to go to the East, forbidden to cross the Great River, forbidden to go beyond to the Dead Places. However, the young man crosses the Great River called Ou-dis-sun, comes to the Dead Place where remaining pieces of stone have bits of words such as "Ashing," "Li coln" and "Biltmore." In another dream-vision which is reinforced by the strange-to-him sounds of city traffic, horns, sirens and panic, he sees an apparition who tells of the death of civilization in this place once called "Newyork." The young primitive returns safely, filled now with determination to learn somehow from the remaining books, mend the broken magic tools and begin again. Bare stage.
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| Genre(s): | Not Available | | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | 22 minutes | | Acts: | 1 | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 4 | | Male Characters: | 3 | | Female Characters: | 1 | | Androgynous Characters: | 0 | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: |
$35.00 /per performance
Royalty/cost information prone to change.
Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatic Publishing
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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