Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Marguerite Josephine Duffy
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Plot: Absurdist
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: A jail cell
- Principal Characters: Jaspers, Michaels, Gregory
- Genres: Drama, Women’s literature, Absurdist literature, Mystery and detective drama
- Subjects: 1960’s, Self-discovery, Prisoners, Murder or homicide, Alienation
- Locales: United States
The Play
Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place begins in a jail cell that contains two bunks and a single bed. At the start of the play, Jaspers, Michaels, and Gregory face the audience, then combine to become a human machine. Soon they change from parts of the machine to prisoners in a cell by moving in a “military manner” to their bunks. It soon becomes clear that all three have been accused of the murder of Jaspers’s wife. The audience does not know which one has committed the murder, nor is it clear whether a murder has actually taken place at all.
...[The entire page is 2185 words long]
Navigate
- Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
- Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
See Also:
Megan Terry (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Megan Terry (Dictionary of World Biography)Megan Terry (Drama)Megan Terry (Sixties in America)
- Add Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place to your favorites