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The Great Sebastians
Author(s):
Howard Lindsay
Russel Crouse
As described by Chapman in the NY News, the play "is an artfully deliberate combination of the legends of Graustark and the writings of George Sokolsky. In it Lunt and Fontanne are a vaudeville combo doing a mind-reading act, and their bookings have carried them as far as Prague, Czechoslovakia, in late 1948. They are just in time for the upsurge of the Communists and the purported suicide of Jan Masaryk, and for a pleasant while it looks as though they'd never get out of Prague alive...the result is a charming, winsome comedy." The mind-reading duo--the Great Sebastians--have been friends of Jan Masaryk, and had lunch with him the day before his death. The new government in Czechoslovakia asks them to say publicly that Masaryk had been depressed and unhappy about his actions as head of the former government, and when the Sebastians refuse to do this, they are in trouble. They are hired to do their mind-reading act at the home of a Communist official who hopes to use them to uncover a traitor to his government; this backfires, and shortly they find themselves prisoners, with their life savings--in the form of a valuable postage stamp--in the hands of the enemy. After many ingenious intrigues an escape is, of course, managed (for this is a comedy) and even the postage stamp is retrieved, and the Sebastians dash for the border, carrying with them a reformed Communist who's decided he would prefer life outside the Iron Curtain.
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| Genre(s): | Comedy
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: | 15 | | Female Characters: | 6 | | Androgynous Characters: | -1 | | 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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