Weapons of Happiness

Weapons of Happiness

    Author: Howard Brenton

    First Performance: 1976, London

    Published: 1976

    Genre: Pol. drama in 2 acts

    Setting: Street, factory, waste-ground, Planetarium, and drain, London, and farm in Wales, 1976; interrogation room, Prague, 1951; Moscow, 1947; Ruzyn Prison, Czechoslovakia, 1952

    Cast: 25m, 3f, extras

Josef Frank has come to London from Czechoslovakia and now works in a crisp[potato chip]-making factory. He witnesses his boss Ralph Makepeace being mugged by three young people wearing balaclavas (in fact his own employees, resentful that he will not allow them to become unionized). During the police investigation, Frank, a former Czech government minister, has a flashback to his 1951 interrogation by the Communist security police. In 1947, Frank and a senior minister, Victor...

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