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The Dying Gaul
Author(s):
Craig Lucas
Here is a modem American tragedy about a grieving screenwriter who compromises his ideals to make a small fortune that enables him to climb from invisible
poverty into the rarefied seductions and surreal beauty of the Hollywood Hills. Robert's gay lover endured horrific and protracted suffering before Robert helped
him to die. Robert's subsequent struggle to come to grips with his own incomprehensible survival and his deep need to find a place in the world that doesn't burn push him into a lush and intoxicating world of sexual ecstacy and intrigue, even as he privately delves into the techniques and teachings of Buddhism for some footing, no matter how tenuous. With breathtaking speed, Robert is caught in a love triangle with a powerful, ruthless and rapacious film producer and his fascinating but woe fully under-stimulated wife. The lies that Robert perpetrates become inextricably interwoven with theirs-each person lying to themselves as much as to their partners and the ones they are betraying. Killingly funny and heart-stoppingly elegiac, this play is a thrilling dramatic experience.
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| Genre(s): | Drama
| | Time Period(s): | Contemporary 1950 -1990
| | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Average | | 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: | $17.95
Royalty/cost information prone to change.
Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Samuel French
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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