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My Collected Plays (Vol. 2)
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HumorGeneral World HistoryPlays
Publisher: Lazarre Seymour Simckes
Published: May 31 2022
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Volume 2 of Lazarre Simckes's My Collected Plays contains four plays, three of which are historical fantasies, but the fourth, The Wonderchild, is a naturalistic play about a divorcing couple who fight over the custody of their seven-year-old son, though the dramatic action lends itself to a spirit of farce.
Farce also invades the world of the three history plays. The Impeachment of James Madison puts the president, now in his eighties, on trial for impeachment; prosecuted in P. T. Barnum's circus by Madison's former slave, Paul Jennings.
Soldier Boys places us in early 19th century Russia during the reign of Czar Nicholas I, when he issued an edict drafting Jews into the Russian army for the first time, including children as young as twelve. Unfortunately, a five-year-old boy, Itsik, gets snatched from his mother's arms by kidnappers to meet the quota of recruits for their town. The desperate mother, Kalah, barges into the palace to demand that Czar Nicholas release her son, whereupon he instantly falls in love with her.
Minutes presents the encounter of Sigmund Freud and Gustav Mahler in Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1910 for a psychoanalytic session dealing with Mahler's mental collapse over his wife Alma's infidelity. But the analysis is constantly beleaguered by the waiter at the cafe where Freud and Mahler initially meet and by the members of a future Freud-Mahler Society visiting Leiden to recreate the encounter that took place years earlier.
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