The Silken Dagger
By Jill Pemberton from the short story by Sir Peter Ustinov
The Silken Dagger is a one-act play that needs 4 or more performers (4 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 4 or more performers
- Roles
- 4 men
- Cast notes
- 4m.
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- historical
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
Italy, towards the end of World War II. The dust has not yet settled over Europe: there are corpses still unburied. Here and there, fanatics unwilling to surrender their dreams still resist crazily, preferring the chance bullet to the deliberate. For Giuseppe Gargaglia, the Undersecretary of the Interior, it is too late for speculations of this nature. He had his chance, and he missed it. Captured ignominiously in the clothes of an old woman, he now sits in a cell with nothing but his thoughts f
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