Underground: Four PlaysBurghers of Calais: "In this farce from 1970, playwright Edgar White finds parallels between the real-life story of the Scottsboro Boys and Auguste Rodin's Burghers of Calais, a famous sculpture depicting the town's fathers who offered themselves as hostages to the invading English during the Hundred Years' War"--CourtTheatre.org website. |
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AENGUS ain't ANNE anyway audience AUNT ETHEL BAGATELLE bastard BELLA DONNA BELLYSONG brother BROTHER JOHNSON Burghers of Calais CONSUELA CORMORANT damn darkness DON HERNANDO Doña Muerte door dressed Edgar White enter ESTEBAN exit father FINKLESTEIN FOWL fuck funeral home funny GEORDIE girl goddamn going GONZALEZ Hamartia hell Hello INQUISITOR JOYCE kisses laugh LAZARILLO LEIBY looks Lord MAMACITA mean MILTON MISS NANCY Miss Twitromp MISSERIMUS MOTHER NAACP NANCY RILEY Negro NEMESIS never nice NICKNACK Nietzche niggers paint Pariah Anon pause PETER play prison PROSECUTOR Puerto Rican QUID RAUL remember SAMUEL SCENE THREE Scottsboro boys seated SECOND DETECTIVE SECOND OLD WOMAN SHERIFF sitting sleep SORDELLO sorry speak SPEAKER stage STRANGER tell Thank there's thing TIRESIAS TOMASIO TONER Uncle Tío USTAD VOICE waiting walks WALTER wear West Indian What's women wonder Yeah