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The Dark Is Light Enough

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 13m

Christopher Fry

This verse play dramatizes an imaginary incident during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-9. The elderly, kind Countess Rosmarin Ostenburg's daughter's former husband is a lazy Hungarian officer who alone seems impervious to the Countess's charm. As t…

The Dark Is Light Enough

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 13m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Period, Docudrama/History

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Summary

This verse play dramatizes an imaginary incident during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-9. The elderly, kind Countess Rosmarin Ostenburg's daughter's former husband is a lazy Hungarian officer who alone seems impervious to the Countess's charm. As the play closes the Austrians are hammering at the door. He turns to escape but seeing the Countess dying turns to stand by her body as the knocking of the Austrians grows louder.

Cast Attributes
  • Time Period 19th Century
  • Setting

    A room and a great staircase, stables.

  • Features Period Costumes

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Christopher Fry

Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry, born in 1907 in Bristol, England, is one of the few twentieth-century dramatists to write successfully in verse. His first major success was THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING (1949), a wry comedy set in the Middle Ages in which love overcomes prejudice and hypocrisy ...
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