A Walk in the Woods (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lee Blessing
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Plot: Political
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland, in a pleasant wooded area
- Principal Characters: Andrey Botvinnik, John Honeyman
- Genres: Drama, History play, Political drama
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Friendship, Idealism, Bombs, Progress, Humanism, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Technology, Soviet Union or Soviets, Arms or weapons, Negotiation, Armaments, Walking, Cold War
- Locales: Geneva, Switzerland
The Play
A Walk in the Woods is the story of an impossible friendship, one that grows between an earnest young American arms negotiator and his more cynical Soviet counterpart during their private walks together over a period of many months. It is also the story of two nations attempting to avert a nuclear holocaust in spite of the political and economic forces that seem to be pushing them relentlessly toward it.
The conflict between these two contrasting elements of the play, the public and the private, the political and the personal, is established in the first...
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