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Compulsion
Author(s):
Meyer Levin
In Chicago in 1924, two brilliant university students, the sons of millionaires, kidnap a boy and kill him. They celebrate their "perfect crime" in a nightclub, with their girlfriends and a fraternity brother, who happens to be a reporter. Tracing of a pair of glasses dropped at the scene of the crime leads the reporter to an interrogation of the two "supermen" in a cat-and-mouse scene, in which they flaunt their extravagant ideas, but eventually entangle themselves. Their bizarre crime arouses a lynching fever, and, in the face of this, a humanitarian attorney fights for their lives. Questions of juvenile delinquency, capital punishment and psychiatric evidence are the subject of the courtroom battle. The struggle over the fate of the two boys is waged between the defense attorney, who believes that we are fallible creatures trapped in our mortal imperfections, and the prosecuting attorney who contends that all men must be held responsible for their actions and punished for their crimes, whatever the causes might be.
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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: | 20 | | Male Characters: | 24 | | Female Characters: | 5 | | Androgynous Characters: | -9 | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $40 per performance. MS
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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