The
story so far
At one of the many embassy masked balls in Concordia,
a very small, but fiercely independent country somewhere
in Europe, the beautiful Juliet, daughter
of the American Ambassador, Hooper Molesworth,
meets and falls in love with Igor Romanoff,
the handsome son of the Soviet Ambassador, Vadim.
Had it not been the fact that this was during the coldest
part of the Cold War, then this transgression
of 'consorting with the enemy' might not be too much
to be concerned about. Can Concordia's entire army -
The General (who also, today, just happens to
be the country's President), plus its two soldiers -
avert, through careful and ingenious subterfuge, what
might otherwise possibly turn into a huge international
political incident
? Is there the remotest possibility
of bringing about a hint of a thaw
? And just what
has the Harbinger of Death on the old clock tower
got to do with anything
?
Although
a delightful and slightly quirky comic and light-hearted
'romp', the play also has its more serious undertones,
as the Soviet Ambassador, his wife Evdokia,
The Spy and Junior Captain Marfa Zlototochienko
each reveal, in their own idiosyncratic way, their
true feelings about their commitment to communism
in the Soviet State.
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