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Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad
Author(s):
Mark Lee
The place is Nairobi, Kenya, where Dove, a brittle, aging correspondent for Reuters, the British news agency, brings home a young American "stringer" named Neal, who has been expelled from neighboring Uganda for reasons not yet fully explained. Worried about his own position, because of previous negligence, Dove hopes to use the story of Neal's expulsion to his own advantage, and he enlists the services of two black prostitutes to help him get at the truth of what happened. One of the girls, Mary, is a world-wise Kenyan who has become skillful at playing the sexy fool for the white man; the other, Christina, is a former student from Uganda who fled her country after being raped and brutalized by government troops. It is Christina who is delegated to pry Neal's story from him but, as the two exchange confidences, it becomes disturbingly clear that both are idealists who have been defiled--and violated--by the terrors of modern Africa, and neither can betray the other. Eventually the sardonic Dove does learn the truth--that Neal, in his careless reporting of a story about local dissidents, precipitated the massacre of an entire village--but his triumph is a hollow one and, as the play ends, even Dove is sobered by the realization that he, and his fellow Europeans, have done little to alleviate and much to exacerbate the failings which they now so smugly and cynically report to the world beyond.
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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: | 2 | | Female Characters: | 2 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $50 per performance
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Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
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