Pearls for Pigs
Pearls for Pigs Author: Richard Foreman
First Performance: 1997, Hartford, Connecticut
Published: 2001
Genre: Drama in 1 act; prose and some free verse
Setting: Large panelled room containing proscenium, indeterminate period (possibly c.1900)
Cast: 7m, 1f
The Maestro, attended by four Large Male Dwarfs, encounters Pierrot and Colombine and declares that he hates the actors in the play and wonders whether to begin improvising. He cancels the play and promptly has sex with Colombine, asking the audience how he can be stopped from doing that. He slits Colombine's throat and forces her into a coffin. Pierrot stabs the Maestro, but it is all just theatre. The Maestro, costumed by the dwarfs in a white dress and feather headdress, speaks of the stage as his ‘private kingdom’ which has no effect on the...
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