Robert
Lesser, Award-winning Dramatist, Philoctetes II, Introduction
Philoctetes II
by
Robert Lesser
Philoctetes was the most celebrated archer in the Trojan War. He
was the friend of Hercules who bequeathed to him his bow and the poisoned
arrows. On his voyage to Troy, he was bitten on his foot by a snake. The
wound produced such an intolerable stench that the Greeks left Philoctetes
on the solitary coast of Lemnos. He remained on this island till the tenth
year of the Trojan War, when Ulysses and Diomedes came to fetch him to
Troy, as an oracle had declared that the city could not be taken without
the arrows of Hercules.
Smith's Smaller Classical Dictionary.
Characters
Phil Moran
Tony Accardo
Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik
Paul Quinn
Timmy Moran
Betty "Bets" Moran
Teresa Moran
Time: Three a.m. Monday Morning, December, 1945
Scene: The stage is divided into lower and upper levels. The lower
level is the safety deposit bank vault in the Continental Illinois Bank,
Chicago. It is a secret room below the street level of the bank. There
are three walls of large safety deposit boxes and the only entrance is
a thick steel door. Left is the sidewalk and a circular stairway leading
up to the Moran's apartment: two small bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen.
It is furnished in Woolworth's plastic modern, shiny furniture, linoleum
floors, vases of fake flowers and Christmas decorations.
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Section Two
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