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The Disposal
Author(s):
William Inge
THE DISPOSAL opens with a chaplain on his knees in prayer for the soul of a man on death row, condemned to die tonight for killing his pregnant wife. Jess is spending his last day in his cell struggling to understand his own actions and trying to find some peace of mind. He has two companions on death row, Archei, a flamboyant homosexual who killed his mother and grandmother, and Luke, an older man who seems to have come to terms with his fate. As the day goes by, Jess alternates between calm acceptance and wild, violent hysteria. When his father arrives for a final visit, Jess hopes to relieve himself of some of the burden of guilt, but his father refuses to believe that Jess committed the crime, even as Jess is confessing it to him. So Jess goes off to the electric chair unable to find any forgiveness from without or within.
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| Genre(s): | Not Available | | 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: | 9 | | Male Characters: | 8 | | Female Characters: | 1 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $25 per performance
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Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
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