The Tell-Tale Heart (Swartz)
By L. Don Swartz
The Tell-Tale Heart (Swartz) is a one-act play that needs 7 performers (3 women, 4 men). Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 7 performers
- Roles
- 3 women, 4 men
- Cast notes
- 4 m, 3 w
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- classic
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
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Synopsis
Poe's familiar story is updated here, set in the modern American judicial system. As part of a competency hearing to determine the suspect's mental ability to stand trial, the caged murderer faces a panel of legal and psychological experts as his confession is videotaped for all to see. As the experts probe deeper into the killer's psyche, the apparently motiveless murder starts to come into focus and we discover the victim's "evil eye" was just the tip of the iceberg. One interior set. (Excerpt
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