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Scheherazade
Author(s):
Marisha Chamberlain
As the play begins, Eve, arriving home in the late evening, is seized by a man in a ski mask who forces her to take him to her apartment. Once there he rapes her--and announces that, as she has ripped away his mask, he will have to kill her. But first there is a chilling pas de deux in which Eve stalls for time and the rapist (Joe) reveals that he has been watching her for months from a nearby rooftop, and knows even the smallest details of her daily life. Controlling her fear and loathing, Eve tries to convince Joe that she finds him attractive, that she is ready to give herself to him willingly. Although suspicious at first, Joe's vanity overrules his caution, and Eve seizes the moment to flee, fortunately into the hands of two policemen who are patrolling outside her apartment. The trapped Joe tries to convince the officers that Eve is hysterical, that she has invited him to her apartment, but the ruse fails and he is taken off. Yet the ordeal is not over, for Eve must exorcise the shock and repugnance which she now relates to men in general, and it is the remaining officer who lets her do this--allowing Eve to act out her trauma, even at his own peril, by quietly shedding his official image and becoming, for the moment, a vulnerable, caring human being who sense another's anguish and who knows that he can help her work through it to survival.
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| Genre(s): | Drama
| | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 4 | | Male Characters: | 3 | | Female Characters: | 1 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $50 per performance
Royalty/cost information prone to change.
Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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