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The Rubble and the Shakespeare
Paperback
Publisher: Hot Broth Publishing
Published: Apr 1 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The tyrannical Regime may be gone at last, but it's easy to remain cynical about fanciful notions such as the arts when half your city still lies in rubble from the recent revolution.
That's where Dimitri finds himself: middle-aged, living in government refugee housing in the outskirts of his own city on a small pension, and with a disabled knee. His life is a peaceful but not adventurous one.
That is until his dearest friend, Otto, barges in with a box of rare and previously outlawed books by one William Shakespeare. Otto wants to stage something called The Tempest, and he just needs Dimitri's help for a day, to get started.
Anything for Otto. But as obstacles of all kinds pile up against the production, and an initial day of help turns into weeks, how much will the down-to-earth Dimitri do for a silly play? For a friend? For himself?
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