Mystery Play

by Jean-Claude Van Itallie, playwright

$95 · Offered by Royal Books

N.p. N.p., 1972. Draft script for the 1973 play, which debuted off-Broadway at Cherry Lane Theatre on January 3. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the title page.A satirical murder mystery set at a dinner party for the Washington elite at the home of an ambitious senator, his beautiful wife, and his mentally ill son. Playwright Jean-Claude Van Itallie was best known for his 1966 expressionist anti-war trilogy America Hurrah. Set

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