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A Sleep of Prisoners

Short Play, Drama  /  4m

Christopher Fry

A Sleep of Prisoners

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary

An anti-war verse drama in the form of a modern Passion play. Four English soldiers are locked up for the night in a church turned into a prison camp. Privates King and Able fight and are separated by the other two. All four dream of the row, interpreting it in different Biblical ways.

Keywords
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting

    Church interior

  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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Authors

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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