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- English
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Small Tragedy (TCG Edition)
About this book
"Full of itnerest, intelligence, amusement, and spine-chilling verity. . . . A play to see and ponder, staying with you, in typical Lucas fashion, long after you leave the theater."—Village Voice
An amateur production of Oedipus elicits social and political tension among its actors, generating meaningful revelations about tragedy in the contemporary world. Lucas's topical and complex play is a remarkably funny, sharply articulated missive aimed at the heart of a generation.
Craig Lucas's plays include Ode to Joy, Missing Persons, Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, God's Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Prayer for My Enemy, The Singing Forest, and the book for The Light in the Piazza (music and lyrics by Adam Guettel).
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ACT TWO
SCENE 1
JEN (To us; holding up Hakija’s book): Ajax:
Everything is brought by time itself
From darkness into light
Then consigned once more to night,
Nothing so catastrophic
That man can trust it never to come to pass,
No promise, nor force of will,
No edifice so fierce, so high,
It cannot come down upon our heads.
We must learn to yield to the gods.
I don’t believe that.
SCENE 2
Rehearsal. All six.
PAOLA: “Haughtiness,”
FANNY: “pride,”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “and”
PAOLA: “violence”
FANNY: “breed”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “tyranny; the”
PAOLA: “Tyrant”
FANNY: “/ means to—”
PAOLA: / May [I]?
NATHANIEL: Keep going, please.
PAOLA: “cli / mb”
FANNY: “climb to”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “heights”
PAOLA: “belonging to the”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “gods.”
FANNY: “May the”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “gods”
PAOLA: “bring him to”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “ruin,”
FANNY: “cast him”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “down,”
PAOLA: “tear him”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “apart,”
FANNY: “reward his”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “hubris—”
NATHANIEL: People.
FANNY: “—with—” Go on?
NATHANIEL: Please.
FANNY: “with”
PAOLA: “no”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “profit”
PAOLA: “whatsoever: break the”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “Tyrant’s neck—”
FANNY: That’s just me. “—neck. Make him”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “untouchable.”
PAOLA: “If the”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “gods”
FANNY: “allow the”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “Tyrant”
PAOLA: “to go”
PAOLA AND FANNY: “free”
FANNY: “/ I re[fuse]—”
NATHANIEL: It won’t be as funny when st...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Production History
- Characters
- Place and Time
- Act One
- Act Two
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- About the Author
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