|
|
BERNARD WOLFE |
|
Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
|
|
Literary Agent: n/a |
Please send me a biography and information about this Playwright
xxx doollee
Plays by Bernard Wolfe |
Karl And Arthur | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37893 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Michael Blankfort | |||||
Synopsis: | Marx, at sixty-one, troubled by lack of recognition, burdened by poverty, a sick wife, a daughter who wants to be an actress - a profession he condemns as useless - guilty over his long relationship with a mistress (a menage a trois) is confronted with the possibility of working out his theories in Ethiopia brought to him by the quintessential bohemian, Arthur Rimbaud. Marx's temptation after the death of his wife to pursue Rimbaud's offer, to make peace with his mistress and daughter, and mostly himself, and to accept his daughter's relationship with the wild, drug-addicted poet is at the core of the play. Rimbaud is as important in the play as Marx. The domestic situation of the Marx family is factual; the meeting with Rimbaud is not | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
